[R] recoding variables-recode not working

[David Winsemius]

On Apr 7, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Vlatka Matkovic Puljic wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have numerical variable that I want to recode into categories '0'  
> and '1
> and more' and do analysis with that data.
> I have tried various of possibilities to do so, but I am sucked and  
> nothing
> is working.
>
> recode(Q12, "0='A';1:30='B'")
> cut(Q12, breaks=c(0,1,30), lables=c('0', '1 and more'))
> cat(Q12, "0=0;1-33=1")
>
> What should I do to make it right?

What does str(Q12) return?

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David Winsemius, MD
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