unfactor: Convert a factor to a character (or number)

In fifer: A Biostatisticians Toolbox for Various Activities, Including Plotting, Data Cleanup, and Data Analysis

Description

Analogous to the function factor, unfactor will convert a factor to a character or integer

Usage

unfactor(x, levels, labels, numeric = FALSE)

Arguments

x	The vector of factors you wish to replace
levels	A numeric vector of the values that will replace the factors
labels	A character vector of the values to be replaced
numeric	Should the labels be returned (i.e., characters)? Or the numbers?

Value

A numeric or character vector

Author(s)

Dustin Fife

See Also

factor

Examples

	#### create sample of male/female participants (at random)
x = as.factor(sample(c("Male", "Female"), 12, replace=TRUE))
unfactor(x, levels=c(0,1), labels=c("Male", "Female"))

Example output

Loading required package: MASS
 [1] 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

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