[R] help on replacing values

2007-09-07 Thread darteta001
Dear List, I have a newbie question. I have read in a data.frame as follows: data = read.table(table.txt, header = T) data X1 X2 X3 X4 A AB AC AB AC B AB AC AA AB C AA AB AA AB D AA AB AB AC E AB AA AA AB F AB AA AB AC B AB AC AB AA I would like to replace AA values by BB in column X2. I

Re: [R] help on replacing values

2007-09-07 Thread darteta001
Thanks a lot Gabor, that was very helpful. All sorted now! Best David Your columns are factors, not character strings. Use as.is = TRUE as an argument to read.table. Also its a bit dangerous to use T although not wrong. Its safer to use TRUE. On 9/7/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL