Internal codes of the factor
Berwin A Turlach wrote:
G'day Gregor,
"GG" == Gregor Gorjanc <gregor.gorjanc at bfro.uni-lj.si> writes:
GG> I am writing some functions and I repeatedly acces internal
GG> factor codes. I figured out that internal codes are 1:n where
GG> 1 represents 1st level, 2 2nd level etc. This is not
GG> documented [...]
The help page for factor states in the 'Details' section:
The encoding of the vector happens as follows. First all the
values in 'exclude' are removed from 'levels'. If 'x[i]' equals
'levels[j]', then the 'i'-th element of the result is 'j'. If no
match is found for 'x[i]' in 'levels', then the 'i'-th element of
the result is set to 'NA'.
Note in particular the part on "then the 'i'-th element of the result
is 'j'". This pretty much documents that the internal codes are 1:n
and 'NA', as documented in the following sentence.
Thanks for this pointer to documentation.
Lep pozdrav / With regards,
Gregor Gorjanc
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