[R] Recategorizing Nominal variable

[R. Michael Weylandt]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Michael Leitson
<Michael.Leitson at wellstar.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to take a data set of doctors, and recategorize them into
> numbers.
>
> For example,
>
> John Doe would be assigned as 1
> Jane Doe would be assigned as 2
>
> Does anyone know how to do this in R? It seems quite easy, yet I cannot
> find the code.
>
> Thank you,
>
>

Try something like

as.numeric(factor(x))

This works because factors are internally coded as one integer per
unique level.

Cheers,
Michael

> Michael Leitson
>
> Research Intern
> MSAS Candidate
> Michael.Leitson at wellstar.org
>
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