converting a factor in numeric values with direct control of the numeric values

ifelse is your friend:

 > z <- c("male", "male", "female")
 >  z <- as.factor(z)
 >
 >  z <- ifelse(z == "male", 3, 5)

 > z
[1] 3 3 5
 > class(z)
[1] "numeric"
 >

--  
David Winsemius

Hi,

I know how to convert a factor-variable into a numeric variable via  
as.numeric().

But how can I control the values that are assigned?

For example, I have this factor-variable:

z <- c("male", "male", "female")
z <- as.factor(z)

And I want to convert male in 3 and female into the numeric value 5  
(just for the example)

so that I get:

[1] 3 3 5

Thanks for any help!

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converting a factor in numeric values with direct control of the numeric values

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