[R] value.labels

[Heinz Tuechler]

At 12.08.2011 09:11 +1200, Rolf Turner wrote:
>On 12/08/11 09:59, Heinz Tuechler wrote:
>>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.
>
>That is just plain (ridiculously) wrong. RTFM.
>
>cheers,
>
>Rolf Turner

So, how would you construct a factor with levels 
0, 1, 2 and labels alive, dead, and missed, as the original post asked for?

Heinz