Re: [R] information reduction-database management question

2010-07-06 Thread Paul Chatfield
I don't think the approach would change much with text. You would have to write a function which picks the 'min' or whatever that means to you with text and then it should work ok, Paul From: Brad Patrick Schneid [via R] [mailto:ml-node+2279677-1095983982-120...@n4.nabble.com] Sent: 06 J

Re: [R] information reduction-database management question

2010-07-06 Thread Paul Chatfield
If you redefine your NAs as below to be detected as some arbitrary large number, then the code should work through. Any 5's left in your dataset can be replaced just as easily by NAs again. Not elegant, but effective. site <- c("s1", "s1", "s1", "s2","s2", "s2") pref <- c(1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3) R1 <