Gorjanc Gregor wrote: >>>Gorjanc Gregor wrote: >>>Hi! >>> >>>There are several instances of describing factors i.e. at least these >>>two >>> >>>http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=guides:stats-with-r:02programming_in_r:03datastructures&s=omit#factors >>> >>>and >>> >>>http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=tips:data-factors:factors >>> >>>I think that we should merge factor parts. Should we put that part from >>>first link to the second? >>> >>> Well, the first part is within Vincent Zoonekynd's "Programming in >>>R", so I don't think so. Perhaps some cross-referencing? (Only the last >>>section -- how to convert factors with numeric labels into numbers >>>properly (as.numeric(as.character(x)) etc.) really looks appropriate >>>for R-tips anyway.) > > > It is confusing to have the same thing in different places. Actually > as.numeric(as.character(x)) is also in Vincent's part so I am now a bit > confused what should be in Vincent's part and what should be in R-tips. > I agree that say drop.levels[1] is a thing for R-tips. Would it make > sense to migrate part in [2] to Vincent's part?
No. Vincent Zoonekynd's Statistics with R is a separate guide by itself (and I hope to have more documents like this, translated into the Wiki). Apart from its translation into Wiki format (and perhaps, refreshment of the content to work with latest R version), this is not to be edited/merged with the rest. The tips section starts with Paul Johnson's tips, but is dedicated to be a collection of many more tips, contributed by the Wiki users. Guides and Tips are very different sections. However, it is possible to got some redundancy... a little bit like you have certainly redundancy in the various contributed packages and documents on CRAN, but you cannot force their authors for more coherence. Best, Philippe Grosjean > [1]http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=tips:data-manip:drop_unused_levels > [2]http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=tips:data-factors:factors > > Gregor > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-wiki mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-wiki > > _______________________________________________ R-sig-wiki mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-wiki
