[R] contrasts in aov

[Christoph Buser]

Dear John

?ordered 

will help you.

Regards,

Christoph Buser

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John Vokey writes:
 > useRs,
 >    A no doubt simple question, but I am baffled.  Indeed, I think I  
 > once knew the answer, but can't recover it.  The default contrasts  
 > for aov (and lm, and...) are contr.treatment and contr.poly for  
 > unordered and ordered factors, respectively.  But, how does one  
 > invoke the latter?  That is, in a data.frame, how does one indicate  
 > that a factor is an *ordered* factor such that contr.poly is invoked  
 > in the aov or lm call?
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