Hi I am a bit puzzled what you want to do?
r-help-boun...@r-project.org napsal dne 22.10.2010 13:06:17: > > I am new to R and request your kind help. > > I have a table like the one below, > one two > 1 apple fruit > 2 ball game > 3 chair wood > 4 wood plain > 5 fruit banana > 6 cloth silk > > Note: duplicate entries are there > > the task is to create relations to each each row entries, like "apple -> > fruit" . when I tried to combine column1 with column 2 (one, two), using > "cbind" the string is changed to numerical value...something like this > [,1] [,2] > [1,] 10 53 > [2,] 25 562 > [3,] 25 462 > [4,] 25 1045 > [5,] 25 488 > [6,] 26 1062 > [7,] 27 951 > [8,] 27 144 > [9,] 27 676 > [10,] 27 486 l1<-sample(letters[1:5], 10, rep=T) l2<-sample(LETTERS[1:5], 10, rep=T) cbind(l1, l2) l1 l2 [1,] "a" "A" [2,] "a" "A" [9,] "c" "C" [10,] "b" "B" dat<-data.frame(l1, l2) changes character values to factor dat l1 l2 1 a A 2 a A 9 c C 10 b B str(dat) 'data.frame': 10 obs. of 2 variables: $ l1: Factor w/ 4 levels "a","b","c","d": 1 1 4 1 4 1 4 1 3 2 $ l2: Factor w/ 5 levels "A","B","C","D",..: 1 1 4 4 4 2 4 5 3 2 and cbind turns them to numeric cbind(dat$l1, dat$l2) [,1] [,2] [1,] 1 1 [2,] 1 1 [9,] 3 3 [10,] 2 2 So you shall turn your factors to character values. But without more info from your side it is just a speculation. Regards Petr > > Please suggest me how to get the string names back like the first table in > the out put, using cbind. > > Thanks in advance > regards > kaarz > > -- > View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Cbind-query- > tp3006988p3006988.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. ______________________________________________ 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.