Hi Milton!
I don't know why, but this thing happend with me too, quite a lot times.
It's a useful way that convert the value type like that:
*as.numeric(as.character(min(...)))*
Zoltan
2007/1/9, Milton Cezar Ribeiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hi R-friends
>
> I don´t know why the "min()" function below return the min value as
> factor. When i force the aicc.min using a as.numeric() function, it return
> a factor index (1,2,..) and not min value as I want. By the way, I included
> a sessionInfo() at the end of this e-mail.
>
> In fact I had the same problem (values as factor) on other part of my
> script and I noticed that it occour when I use "cbind()". It is real?
>
> Any idea?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Miltinho
>
> > especies.aicc.min<-data.frame()
> > for (sp in levels(especies.aicc$especie))
> + {
> + sele<-subset(especies.aicc,especie==sp)
> + especies.aicc.min<-rbind(especies.aicc.min,cbind(sp,aicc.min=min
> (sele$aicc)))
> + }
> > especies.aicc.min
> sp aicc.min
> 1 Attila.rufus 6.7387056413613
> 2 Automolus.leucophthalmus 125.791300522824
> > class(especies.aicc.min$aicc.min)
> [1] "factor"
> >
> -----------
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.4.0 (2006-10-03)
> i386-pc-mingw32
> locale:
>
> LC_COLLATE=English_Jamaica.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_Jamaica.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_Jamaica.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_Jamaica.1252
> attached base packages:
> [1] "methods" "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils"
> "datasets" "base"
> >
>
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