[R] [FORGED] Help with the Cut Function

[Rolf Turner]

On 26/06/16 07:05, Shivi Bhatia wrote:
> Dear Team,
>
> Please see the code below:
>
> Age1<- cut(desc$Age, breaks = c(20,30,40,Inf),labels = c("Low","Mid","Top"))
> here i am creating three categories as mentioned from the age var from desc
> data set.
> All the values are set correctly however the values which are below 20 are
> set to NA.
> Is there anything i am doing incorrect.

No.  What is the problem?  This seems to me to be exactly what one would 
expect.

If you don't want NAs, set your lower break to be less than the minimum 
of desc$Age, e.g. -Inf.

cheers,

Rolf Turner

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