Hi,

I know how to convert a factor-variable into a numeric variable via as.numeric().

But how can I control the values that are assigned?


For example, I have this factor-variable:


z <- c("male", "male", "female")
z <- as.factor(z)


And I want to convert male in 3 and female into the numeric value 5 (just for the example)

so that I get:

[1] 3 3 5


Thanks for any help!

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