Why use as.factor () instead of just factor () - Stack Overflow
The table function looks like an exception and I spot factor instead of as.factor inside. There might be some special consideration which is unfortunately not obvious to me when I inspect its …
r - Changing factor levels with dplyr mutate - Stack Overflow
Jan 28, 2015 · From my understanding, the currently accepted answer only changes the order of the factor levels, not the actual labels (i.e., how the levels of the factor are called).
Convert data.frame column format from character to factor
Dec 6, 2018 · The complete conversion of every character variable to factor usually happens when reading in data, e.g., with stringsAsFactors = TRUE, but this is useful when say, you've …
r - Re-ordering factor levels in data frame - Stack Overflow
Aug 24, 2013 · Re-ordering factor levels in data frame [duplicate] Asked 11 years, 10 months ago Modified 3 years, 10 months ago Viewed 247k times
when to use factor () when plotting with ggplot in R?
Feb 25, 2013 · Is the general rule to use factor when the variable being used to determine the shape/size/colour is discrete, and not continuous? Or is there another use of factor in this …
r - summarizing counts of a factor with dplyr - Stack Overflow
Sep 12, 2014 · I want to group a data frame by a column (owner) and output a new data frame that has counts of each type of a factor at each observation. The real data frame is fairly large, …
How to force R to use a specified factor level as reference in a ...
You should do the data processing step outside of the model formula/fitting. When creating the factor from b you can specify the ordering of the levels using factor(b, levels = c(3,1,2,4,5)). Do …
How to reorder factor levels in a tidy way? - Stack Overflow
Jul 17, 2017 · A couple comments: reordering a factor is modifying a data column. The dplyr command to modify a data column is mutate. All arrange does is re-order rows, this has no …
colors - Colouring plot by factor in R - Stack Overflow
May 26, 2016 · Using R's built in plot functionality Using R's built in plot functionality to get a plot colored by a factor and an associated legend is a 4-step process, and it's a little more …
r - Sort data frame column by factor - Stack Overflow
Jan 23, 2014 · Sort data frame column by factor Asked 11 years, 5 months ago Modified 2 years, 11 months ago Viewed 95k times