Hi Eik, thank you very much for your reply! It now is working thank's your explanations:
I didn't write my own recode function but I loaded the package car after memisc. I now tried find("recode",mode="function") and got [1] "package:car" "package:memisc" as an output. So this means that the first mentioned package is the one which is used by R. I also tried loading the packages again by closing R and opending it again - first memisc, afterwards car - and got a warning message, which said: ## Lade nötiges Paket: nnet Attache Paket: car The following object(s) are masked from package:memisc: recode ## I would have interpreted this warning the other way around, but this might be a language problem of mine ( I would think this means "recode wird vom memisc package verdeckt" - I would interpret this as the memisc package still being the package in use) Another thing which by mistake I actually wrote a bit differently than it is written in the memisc manual is that I used = instead of <- when using the recode function which caused the error message: invalid recoding request I suppose this means that it is not always possible to excange an <- for an =, maybe only in the base version? (the code in the manual is actually: memisc::recode(f, "A"<-c("a","b"), "B"<-c("c","d"),otherwise="copy" ) ) Thank's very much again for your help! Marion 2012/7/24 Eik Vettorazzi <e.vettora...@uke.de> > Hi Marion, > the Hmisc package has also a function called "recode", maybe you loaded > this package after memisc so the memisc version was masked (you should > have got a warning message about that). Or perhaps you wrote you own > recode function? > > Try > > find("recode",mode="function") > > to see all search list entries. > > You can access the desired function regardless of the place in the > search path by > memisc::recode(...) > > > hth. > > Am 24.07.2012 13:53, schrieb Marion Wenty: > > Dear people, > > > > Yesterday I looked at the recode command in the memisc package and ran > the > > following example stated in the manual: > > > > x <- as.item(sample(1:6,20,replace=TRUE), > > labels=c( a=1, > > b=2, > > c=3, > > d=4, > > e=5, > > f=6)) > > > > print(x) > > f <- as.factor(x) > > f > > recode(f, > > "A"=c("a","b"), > > "B"=c("c","d"),otherwise="copy" > > ) > > > > I also used this command for my dataset and it work - I didn't get an > error > > message. > > > > Today I have tried several times running this example, also with my > > dataset, and always got the same error message (in German): > > > > Fehler in recode(f, A = c("a", "b"), B = c("c", "d"), otherwise = > "copy") : > > unbenutzte(s) Argument(e) (A = c("a", "b"), B = c("c", "d"), otherwise > = > > "copy") > > > > (Error in recode ... > > unused argument(s) ...) > > > > I also couldn't find anything in the internet. I don't understand why > this > > is not working anymore. Does anyone know what the problem is? > > > > Thank you very much for your help in advance! > > > > Marion > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > > > -- > Eik Vettorazzi > Institut für Medizinische Biometrie und Epidemiologie > Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf > > Martinistr. 52 > 20246 Hamburg > > T ++49/40/7410-58243 > F ++49/40/7410-57790 > > -- > Pflichtangaben gemäß Gesetz über elektronische Handelsregister und > Genossenschaftsregister sowie das Unternehmensregister (EHUG): > > Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf; Körperschaft des öffentlichen > Rechts; Gerichtsstand: Hamburg > > Vorstandsmitglieder: Prof. Dr. Guido Sauter (Vertreter des Vorsitzenden), > Dr. Alexander Kirstein, Joachim Prölß, Prof. Dr. Dr. Uwe Koch-Gromus > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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