[R] How to change the levels of a variable???

[John Fox]

At 08:27 AM 21/09/2001 -0300, Ronaldo Reis Jr. wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a simple question.
>
>I have a variable with 3 levels.
>
>Variable
>A A A A A A
>B B B B B B
>C C C C C C
>
>I need to make a new vector renaming de levels B and C for D.
>
>NewVariable
>A A A A A A
>D D D D D D
>D D D D D D
>
>I dont find how to make it in manuals or in this list.
>Can anyone help-me???
>Thank you
>Ronaldo
>--


Dear Ronaldo,

There are several ways to do this; one way is to use the recode function in 
the car package:

     new <- recode(var, " c('B', 'C') = 'D' ")

I hope that this helps,
  John




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