But there is almost certainly no need to do this in the first place! -- Bert
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Rui Barradas <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt> wrote: > Hello, > > You should provide us with a data example. > > In the following, the two solutions are completely different but both of > them do what you want. Note that the second creates a factor variable, whose > levels are coded as integers. See R-intro.pdf in your doc directory, chapter > 4 Ordered and unordered factors. > > > x <- sample(c("Male", "Female"), 10, replace = TRUE) > > y1 <- ifelse(x == "Male", 1L, 2L) > y2 <- factor(x, levels = c("Male", "Female")) > > > Hope this helps, > > Rui Barradas > > Em 27-04-2013 15:32, sgs sys escreveu: >> >> Hi >> >> i want to recode Male =1 and female =2 in R >> what is the syntax for same ? >> thanks >> Sameer >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm ______________________________________________ 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.