Hi all: I am having trouble dropping levels, got a few hints online without success. Please consider the dataset below: I was under the inpression that subset(......drop=TRUE) would work but it doesn't
library(ggplot2) library(hmisc) x <- structure(list(first = c(38.2086, 43.1768, 43.146, 41.8044, 42.4232, 46.3646, 38.0813, 40.0745, 40.4889, 38.6246, 40.2826, 41.6056, 34.5353, 40.0768), second = c(43.3295, 42.4326, 38.8994, 37.0894, 42.3218, 46.1726, 39.1206, 41.2072, 42.4874, 40.2657, 38.7766, 40.8822, 42.0165, 49.2055), third = c(42.24, 42.992, 37.7419, 42.3448, 41.9131, 44.385, 42.7811, 44.1963, 40.8088, 43.9634, 38.7079, 38.0791, 44.3136, 39.5333)), .Names = c("first", "second", "third"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -14L)) head(x);str(x) xmelt <- melt(x) names(xmelt) <- c("year","fatPerc") # Year variable is a factor with three levels # Subset to plot only 'first' year firstyear <- subset(xmelt,year=='first');str(firstyear) # Plot showing three levels still after I made the subset ggplot(firstyear,aes(year,fatPerc)) + geom_boxplot() + geom_jitter() # Try to drop the levels but dropUnusedLevels() doesn't seem to work here dropUnusedLevels() ggplot(firstyear,aes(year,fatPerc)) + geom_boxplot() + geom_jitter() # code below also should drop levels but it doesn't #data.frame(lapply(firstyear, function(x) if (is.factor(x)){ factor(x)} else{x})) str(firstyear) Felipe D. Carrillo Supervisory Fishery Biologist Department of the Interior US Fish & Wildlife Service California, USA ______________________________________________ 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.