Re: [R] dropping factor levels in subset

2003-06-30 Thread Douglas Bates
Adaikalavan Ramasamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Another option is pruneLevels() in library nlme. x - factor( c( 0,1,2,1,2 ) ) x [1] 0 1 2 1 2 Levels: 0 1 2 pruneLevels( x[-1] ) [1] 1 2 1 2 Levels: 1 2 That function has been removed from the latest release of the nlme package because

RE: [R] dropping factor levels in subset

2003-06-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
A more transparent solution is old.factor[1:3, drop = TRUE] That has worked for a long time, but apparently not been documented in R until 1.7.1 (docs added a couple of hours before release). So you could do (probably, since there are some bugs prior to 1.8.0) crb[] - lapply(crb, function(x)

RE: [R] dropping factor levels in subset

2003-06-27 Thread Marc Schwartz
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 1:35 AM To: Marc Schwartz Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Nick Bond' Subject: RE: [R] dropping factor levels in subset A more transparent solution is old.factor[1:3

RE: [R] dropping factor levels in subset

2003-06-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Jun 2003, Marc Schwartz wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 1:35 AM To: Marc Schwartz Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Nick Bond' Subject: RE: [R] dropping factor levels in subset

Re: [R] dropping factor levels in subset

2003-06-27 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
] dropping factor levels in subset A more transparent solution is old.factor[1:3, drop = TRUE] That has worked for a long time, but apparently not been documented in R until 1.7.1 (docs added a couple of hours before release). So you could do (probably, since there are some bugs

RE: [R] dropping factor levels in subset

2003-06-27 Thread Marc Schwartz
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 12:11 PM To: Marc Schwartz Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Nick Bond' Subject: RE: [R] dropping factor levels in subset Re: [, drop=TRUE} for factors It's been in S

RE: [R] dropping factor levels in subset

2003-06-26 Thread Marc Schwartz
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Bond Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 10:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] dropping factor levels in subset Dear all, I've taken a subset of data from a data frame using crb-subset(all.raw, creek