The down side to R's factor solution: The numerical values of factors are always 1 to number of levels. Thus, it can be tough and requires great care to work with studies that have both numerical values different from this and value labels. This situation is currently not well-supported by R.
Regards, Ulrike P.S.: I fully agree with Frank regarding the annoyance one sometimes encounters with formats in SAS! lamack lamack wrote: > > Dear all, Is there an R equivalent to SAS's proc format? > > Best regards > > J. Lamack > > _________________________________________________________________ > O Windows Live Spaces é seu espaço na internet com fotos (500 por mês), > blog > e agora com rede social http://spaces.live.com/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/R-and-SAS-proc-format-tf3357624.html#a9340323 Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.
