[R-sig-Geo] sp: spplot bug in sp 0.9-2

[Michael Sumner]

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> which is quite something different. But this will convert a potentially 
> huge factor to character and back to factor which may be resource 
> intensive. Does anyone here know a simpler way of achieving this, i.e. 
> given f, without using as.character()?
>   
Does this help? 

 factor(levels(f)[f], levels = c("c","b","a"), labels =  c("cc","bb","aa"))