From gautier@lion-ag.de  Thu Sep  2 16:40:48 1999
From: gautier@lion-ag.de (gautier@lion-ag.de)
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 17:40:48 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: trouble with the 'exclude' parameter of factor() (PR#265)
Message-ID: <199909021540.RAA19224@pubhealth.ku.dk>

Full_Name: Laurent Gautier
Version: 0.65.0
OS: Irix 6.5
Submission from: (NULL) (195.110.4.98)


the following doesn't give what I expect

> test _ factor(ORGMORE[[1]],exclude=c(NA,"NOM"))
Warning message: 
NAs introduced by coercion 
> levels(test)
[1] "CYT" "EXC" "MEM" "NOM" "NUC" "SEC"


while this works...

> test _ factor(ORGMORE[[1]],levels=c("CYT","EXEC","MEM","NUC","SEC"),exclude=NA)
> levels(test)
[1] "CYT"  "EXEC" "MEM"  "NUC"  "SEC" 


All apologies if I misunderstood the help page for the factor() function and
this is not strange...
(I mean the results obtained, not my understanding of the help pages  =)    ).



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trouble with the 'exclude' parameter of factor() (PR#265)
gautier@lion-ag.de