On Jul 29, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Simon Kiss wrote:
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.
It's probably in a package named 'car'.
library(car)
?recode
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" , .
I've troubleshooted (shot?) the recode function for all the levels
and it's really the apostrophe that is the problem.
When entering , I get the error message
[39] ERROR: Use only double-quotes (" ") in recode directives
Need to escape the single quote:
x <- c("Bachelor's Degree" , "Master's Degree")
recode(x, ' "Bachelor\'s Degree" = 1 ; "Master\'s Degree"= 2')
# [1] 1 2
You might also have tried:
library(foreign)
?read.spss
--
David.
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?
--
David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT
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