[R] assignment operator saving factor level as number

[Erik Iverson]

Could you give a small reproducible example please?
It is not clear to me what your looping structure is
doing, or what your goal here is.

There may be a much simpler method than introducing
subscripts.

--Erik

Wade Wall wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a dataframe (df1) that I am trying to select values from to a second
> dataframe that at the current time is only for the selected items from df1
> (df2).  The values that I am trying to save from df1 are factors with
> alphanumeric names
> 
> df1 looks like this:
> 
> 'data.frame':   3014 obs. of  13 variables:
>  $ Num         : int  1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 ...
>  $ Tag_Num     : int  1195 1195 1195 1162 1162 1162 1106 1106 1106 1173 ...
>  $ Site        : Factor w/ 25 levels "PYBR002A","PYBR003B",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
> 1 1 1 ...
>  $ Site_IndNum : Factor w/ 1044 levels "PYBR002A_001",..: 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3
> 4 ...
>  .... ...
>  $ Area        : num  463.3 29.5 101.8 152.9 34.6 ...
> 
> However, whenever I try to assign values, like this
> 
> df2[j,1]<-df2$Site[i]
> 
> the values are changed from alphanumeric (e.g. PYBR003A) to numerals (e.g.
> 1).
> 
> Does anyone know why this is happening and how I can assign the actual
> values from df1 to df2?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Wade
> 
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