Hi

English is also not my mother tongue. However if you do not describe what do you mean by factor expansion you probably will not get reasonable answers.

Other see inline

And BTW please post with plain text, HTML can be scrambled.

From: Jose Bustos Melo [mailto:jbustosmelo@yahoo.es]
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 6:39 PM
To: PIKAL Petr; r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] factor expansion

Thank you PIKAL Petr,

This is used when you have a big data base of a national sample. So, this factor is a variable that uses the sample in order to obtain information about all the people of the country.  Similar of getting a real

So you want to sample some variable? In that case you can use ?sample.

approach about what's going on in the total population. I don't know how it is called in english (my first tonge is spanish).  Perhaps, there's a function in R, but I have not idea.

Neither I,  do you want some statistics from your data?

Hope it helps.

Not much
Regards
Petr

Thanks in advance.
José

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De: PIKAL Petr <petr.pikal@precheza.cz<mailto:petr.pikal@precheza.cz>>
Para: Jose Bustos Melo <jbustosmelo@yahoo.es<mailto:jbustosmelo@yahoo.es>>; "r-help@r-project.org<mailto:r-help@r-project.org>" <r-help@r-project.org<mailto:r-help@r-project.org>>
Enviado: Miércoles 19 de septiembre de 2012 9:19
Asunto: RE: [R] factor expansion

Hi

I did not see any answer yet but can you explain what you mean by factor expansion? Something like expand.grid?

Petr

> -----Original Message-----
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> project.org<mailto:r-help-bounces@r-%0b%3e%20project.org>] On Behalf Of Jose Bustos Melo
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> Subject: [R] factor expansion
>
> I'm trying to use a data base from SPSS and get all data representing
> the true data. I would like to use a variable as expansion data. In our
> data base we have the variable with the factor expansion, but we have
> not idea how to set it in R.
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> José
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