Thank you Dr. Iasonas Lamprianou
Assistant Professor (Educational Research and Evaluation) Department of Education Sciences European University-Cyprus P.O. Box 22006 1516 Nicosia Cyprus Tel.: +357-22-713178 Fax: +357-22-590539 Honorary Research Fellow Department of Education The University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK Tel. 0044 161 275 3485 [email protected] ________________________________ From: Henrique Dallazuanna <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Mon, 3 January, 2011 13:26:43 Subject: Re: [R] factor names Try this: f <- factor(sample(c("Engineer", "Doctor", "Teacher"), 50, rep = TRUE)) levels(f)[levels(f) %in% c('Doctor', 'Teacher')] <- paste(abbreviate(c('Doctor', 'Teacher'), 5), collapse = " & ") rote: Dear all >I have a factor variable which holds values like "Engineer", "Doctor", "Teacher" >etc. I would like to collapse those categories so that Teachers and Sociologists >form one category named "Teach & Soc" etc. However, I do not know how I can do >it. Recoding does not seem to work. > >Thank you > Dr. Iasonas Lamprianou > > > > >Assistant Professor (Educational Research and Evaluation) >Department of Education Sciences >European University-Cyprus >P.O. Box 22006 >1516 Nicosia >Cyprus >Tel.: +357-22-713178 >Fax: +357-22-590539 > > > > >Honorary Research Fellow >Department of Education >The University of Manchester >Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK >Tel. 0044 161 275 3485 >[email protected] > > > > > >______________________________________________ >[email protected] 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. > -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
