Message-ID: <OF5A85D677.79B6B4E5-ONC12573B1.004C433D-C12573B1.004C5DA6@precheza.cz>
Date: 2007-12-14T13:54:06Z
From: PIKAL Petr
Subject: Odp: Conflating categories
In-Reply-To: <000e01c83e4e$75a9e9a0$0200a8c0@PC2>
Hi
r-help-bounces at r-project.org napsal dne 14.12.2007 13:39:02:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I think this is a pretty basic question. I still couldn#t find the
answer to
> it, though.
>
> I have some data loaded into R, which looks like this:
>
> > data()
> ...
> 38358 Advice Article
> 38359 Advice Article
> 38360 GeneralInfo List
> 38361 GeneralInfo Article
> 38362 Purchase Paragraphs
> 38363 Purchase List
> 38364 Purchase Paragraphs
> ...
If it is factor you can change its levels
> temp$V1
[1] A01 A01 A01 A02 A02 A03 A03 A04
Levels: A01 A02 A03 A04
> levels(temp$V1)
[1] "A01" "A02" "A03" "A04"
> levels(temp$V1)[1:2]<-"one"
> temp$V1
[1] one one one one one A03 A03 A04
Levels: one A03 A04
Regards
Petr
>
>
> I now would like to edit the data in such a way that every "Advice" is
> changed into "GeneralInfo".
> Is there some easy way how I can do this?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
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