Try

data2$X<-factor(data2$X)

By the way, avoid call data as "data", matrix as "matrix", vector as
"vector".

cheers

milton

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:35 PM, clee <cheelee7@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> If anyone can help with this, I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> When I subset a dataframe, and then create a table of on of the column
> variables, the levels of that variable are retained from the parent
> dataframe.  Anyone know how to
>
>
> for example, say I have data like so:
>
> data:
> X     Y
> a     2
> b     2
> a     3
> b     3
> a     5
>
> if I do....
>
> data2=subset(data,X=="a")
>
> I get the new data frame:
>
> data2:
> X     Y
> a     2
> a     3
> a     5
>
> but if I do this...
>
> table(data2$X)
>
> I would get this:
>
> X     Y
> 3     0
>
> additionally when I write...
>
> levels(data2$X)
>
> I get...
> Factors w/ 2 levels: "a", "b"
>
> I want it to be...
> Factors w/ 1 level: "a"
>
> Normally I would just move on and won't even bother but I'm working with a
> variable that has 204 levels and only 84 of those are meaningful to me.
>  How
> can I reset the levels of a column variable?  help please!  Thanks!
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