On Jan 6, 2012, at 06:20 , arabarkev wrote: > Hello all > > I'm new to R and am experiencing a problem with a categorical variable. All > the data of this variable are "Low", "High", or NA. When I put > summary(x$y), it gives me the number of High, Low, and NA entries. However, > when I try to subset by writing x$y=="Low" or x$y=="High", R does not > recognize the word and it writes FALSE for all the entries (but not the NA > entries). > > Can anybody help me out?
Trailing whitespace? Check levels(x$y) > > Thanks > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/R-not-recognizing-words-tp4268283p4268283.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.