Hello I need a tiny peace of help. (PPC Mac Os X 10.4.10; R 2.5.1) I have a data.frame with numeric and factor variables. I would like to convert same of the factors to ordered factors. I tried with: attach (table) as.ordered (V3) but this gives me only the V3 Vector as ordred back but in the data.frame (str(Table)) it is still not ordered. How can I do that? Thanks for your help. I am still a beginner. Greetings Birgit Now I would like to Birgit Lemcke Institut für Systematische Botanik Zollikerstrasse 107 CH-8008 Zürich Switzerland Ph: +41 (0)44 634 8351 birgit.lemcke@systbot.uzh.ch [[alternative HTML version deleted]]