Sorry, I'm sure I'm not using the appropriate vocab here, which is
undoubtedly why I can't seem to find a fix to this (hopefully very
easy) problem.
Suppose you have a factor
abc <- factor(c(2,2,3,4,7,7))
And you want to know what the number in the nth spot in that would be
abc[1]
[1] 2
Levels: 2 3 4 7
shows the correct label of the first element - but if I want to pull
out the numeric value of that label, I thought...
as.numeric(abc[1])
but that gives
[1] 1
which is the position of the label in the levels vector of the factor.
Ideas?
Thanks!