In a message dated 9/12/03 1:16:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk writes:

> On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 anne.piotet@urbanet.ch wrote:
> 
> >Another newbie question....
> >  I want to create a factor (say cT)from a numerical variable (sy temp) by 
> >regrouping the values in classes (say cT <390, [390,400[,[400,409[...>=550)
> >
> >Is there a simple way of doing that using the factor function?
> 
> No, but see ?cut.

Also see, cut2 in "design" library.  There are other useful functions for 
data manipulation and management. Documentation can be found at:
<A HREF="http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/Design.html">http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/Design.html</A>


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