> And subsetting a factor retains the original factor levels. To drop > unused levels, just use factor(f[index]) or f[index, drop=TRUE]. The > opposite behaviour can be even more annoying/dangerous because it leads > to empty cells dropping out of tables and bars disappearing from barplots.
Of course you can apply the same reasoning to continuous variables too. I've always thought it would be interesting to have a continuous analogue of a factor that preserved its original range by default. Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.
