Hi there, library(lattice) equal.count(x,number=4,overlap=0)
JC 2011/9/9 Martin Batholdy <batho...@googlemail.com>: > Hi, > > is there a function or an easy way to convert a variable with continuous > values into a categorial variable (with x levels)? > > here is what I mean: > > > I want to transform x: > > x <- c(3.2, 1.5, 6.8, 6.9, 8.5, 9.6, 1.1, 0.6) > > into a 'categorial'-variable with four levels so that I get: > > [1] 2 2 3 3 4 4 1 1 > > so each element is converted into its rank- value / categorial-value > (in this example four levels are created). > > > > thanks for any suggestions! > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
