[R] value.labels

[Heinz Tuechler]

At 11.08.2011 21:50 +0300, Zeki Çatav wrote:
>Prş, 2011-08-11 tarihinde 19:27 +0200 saatinde, Uwe Ligges yazdı:
> >
> > On 11.08.2011 19:22, David Winsemius wrote:
> > >
> > > On Aug 11, 2011, at 11:42 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On 11.08.2011 16:10, zcatav wrote:
> > >>> Hello R people,
> > >>>
> > >>> I have a "data.frame". Status variable has 3 values. 0->alive,
> > >>> 1->dead and
> > >>> 2->missed..........................
> > .........................................
> > As I understood the question, just how to rename the levels was the
> > original question.
> >
> > Uwe
>
>I don't want to rename levels or converting from numeric to string. I
>want to add each corresponding levels value, a label, as in SPSS.
>Level 0 labeled with alive,
>level 1 labeled with dead and
>level 2 labeled with missed.

This is not possible with a factor, because 
factor levels can only be positive integers.

Heinz



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