[R] drop levels problem

[Joshua Wiley]

Just to follow up on my own post a bit:

xmelt$year[xmelt$year == "first", drop = TRUE]

will do what you want.  I think because in the subset there are
multiple columns not all of which are factor, the method for '[' being
used is not the factor one that would drop unused levels.  I did not
make that clear at all the first time around (and probably still
butchered it, which some knowledgeable soul may correct me on).  Also
I did get Hmisc installed, but I think dropUnusedLevels() does not
work in this case for a similar reason.

Henrique's solution is, as usual, the shortest :)

Josh

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