Now I have :)
Thanx a lot!
2010/4/8 David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net>
>
> On Apr 8, 2010, at 8:13 AM, Vlatka Matkovic Puljic wrote:
>
> Dear,
>>
>> my variable is numerical indicating how many times smb done test
>> summary(Q12)
>> Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. NA's
>> 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.7989 1.0000 30.0000 66.0000
>>
>> I want to change this to categories--> 0=none testing; 1:30=done testing
>> (NA
>> excluded)
>>
>> John, *cut(Q12, breaks=c(0,1,30), include.lowest=TRUE, labels=c('0', '1
>> and
>> more'))*
>> is working.
>> Only, when I want frequencies (for ex.) for this new 2 categories, R is
>> returning me freq for all 0 to 30.
>>
>
> It what fashion are you telling R that you "want frequencies"? Did you
> assign the output of cut(Q12, ...) to a new variable?
>
> --
> David.
>
>
>>
>> 2010/4/7 John Fox <j...@mcmaster.ca>
>>
>> Dear Vlatka,
>>>
>>> It's impossible to know what the problem is without knowing something
>>> about
>>> your data, which you didn't tell us either in this message or your
>>> subsequent one.
>>>
>>> The recode command should work:
>>>
>>> (x <- c(rep(0, 5), sample(1:30, 5, replace=TRUE)))
>>>>
>>> [1] 0 0 0 0 0 17 27 19 19 2
>>>
>>> recode(x, "0='A'; 1:30='B'")
>>>>
>>> [1] "A" "A" "A" "A" "A" "B" "B" "B" "B" "B"
>>>
>>> The cut command requires include.lowest=TRUE and it helps to spell the
>>> labels argument correctly:
>>>
>>> cut(x, breaks=c(0,1,30), include.lowest=TRUE, labels=c('0', '1 and
>>>>
>>> more'))
>>> [1] 0 0 0 0 0 1 and more
>>> [7] 1 and more 1 and more 1 and more 1 and more
>>> Levels: 0 1 and more
>>>
>>> I hope this helps,
>>> John
>>>
>>> --------------------------------
>>> John Fox
>>> Senator William McMaster
>>> Professor of Social Statistics
>>> Department of Sociology
>>> McMaster University
>>> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
>>> web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org
>>>> ]
>>>>
>>> On
>>>
>>>> Behalf Of Vlatka Matkovic Puljic
>>>> Sent: April-07-10 1:31 PM
>>>> To: r-help@r-project.org
>>>> Subject: [R] recoding variables-recode not working
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have numerical variable that I want to recode into categories '0' and
>>>>
>>> '1
>>>
>>>> and more' and do analysis with that data.
>>>> I have tried various of possibilities to do so, but I am sucked and
>>>>
>>> nothing
>>>
>>>> is working.
>>>>
>>>> recode(Q12, "0='A';1:30='B'")
>>>> cut(Q12, breaks=c(0,1,30), lables=c('0', '1 and more'))
>>>> cat(Q12, "0=0;1-33=1")
>>>>
>>>> What should I do to make it right?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> **************************
>>>> Vlatka
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>>
>> --
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>> Vlatka Matkoviæ Puljiæ
>> 095/8618 171
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>
> David Winsemius, MD
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