Eduardo Klein <eklein <at> usb.ve> writes:

> I would like to know how R assigns the numeric code to a set of factors 
> in a vector. 

  [snip]

> 

  It is indeed alphabetical by default.  To get it in order of
appearance you could do something like

set.seed(1001)
x <- sample(letters[1:5],50,replace=TRUE)
f <- factor(x,levels=unique(x))

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