Dear colleagues,
I'm using R64 (2.13) on Mac OS 10.6.8 and I've encountered a problem with the
recode function in Rcommander. The application cannot deal with apostrpohes (
' ) do not. I've got a factor from the 2008 Canada Election study (highest
level of schooling) and some of the values include "Bachelor's Degree" ,
"Master's Degree".
I've troubleshooted (shot?) the recode function for all the levels and it's
really the apostrophe that is the problem.
When entering "Bachelor's Degree"=1, I get the error message
[39] ERROR: Use only double-quotes (" ") in recode directives
I see also that the same problem exists in recode from the command line.
There are two ways I can solve this myself, but neither are both are a bit more
complex than the context requires (e.g. exercises for an undergraduate class).
I can use gsub from the command line to remove the apostrophes, or i can
import the data file without using value labels as factor levels and that would
doubtless work. But the technical documentation for the CES is very poor; my
students would have to end up opening up the original .sav file in PASW and
hunt down what the underlying factor levels refer to in that instance.
Is there a solution within R Commander?
Yours, Simon Kiss
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Simon J. Kiss, PhD
Assistant Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
73 George Street
Brantford, Ontario, Canada
N3T 2C9
Cell: +1 905 746 7606
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