On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:05 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius@comcast.net>wrote:

>
> On Apr 29, 2010, at 10:37 AM, RCulloch wrote:
>
>
>> Thanks Henrique,
>>
>> that works! for anyone else as slow as me, just:
>>
>> ##Assign
>> x <- factor(dat.ID$ID2, labels = 1:7)
>> ##Convert to dataframe
>> x <- as.data.frame(x)
>>
>
> The more typical methods for converting a factor to a character vector
> would be:
>
> (ff <- factor(substring("statistics", 1:10, 1:10), levels=letters))
>  levels(ff)[ff]
> # [1] "s" "t" "a" "t" "i" "s" "t" "i" "c" "s"
>  as.character(ff)
> # [1] "s" "t" "a" "t" "i" "s" "t" "i" "c" "s"
>
>
>  ##Then bind to your data
>> z <- cbind(y,x)
>>
>
> Oooh. Not a good practice, at least for the newish useR. cbind and rbind
> create matrices and as a consequence coerce all of their elements to be of
> the same type. Numeric columns would become character vectors. Not generally
> a desired result. This would be safer:
>
>
X is a data.frame, so, the object created is a data.frame.


> dat.I$ID2.cf  <- as.character( factor(dat.ID$ID2, labels = 1:7)  )
> --
> David.
>
>
>> Thanks again, I expected it to be more complicated!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Ross
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