Dear R-users, I have found this not-so-recent post in the archives - http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/devel/00a/0291.html - while I was looking for a particular way to reorder factor levels. The question addressed by the author was to know if the read.table function could be modified to order the levels of newly created factors "according to the order that they appear in the data file". Exactly what I am looking for. As there was no reply to this post, I wonder if any move have been made towards the implementation of this suggestion. A quick look at ?read.table tells me that if this option was implemented, it was not in the read.table function...
Sebastien PS: I am sorry to post so many messages on the list, but I am learning R (basically by trials & errors ;-) ) and no one around me has even a slight notion about it... ______________________________________________ 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.
