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2017 Nov 21
0
mystery "158"
Your data frame fam contains factors. Turn it into character strings using
fam$Family = as.character(fam$Family)
and try again. It may be helpful if you read up on R's factors, see ?factor.
HTH,
Peter
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Glen Forister <gforister at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a simple problem, but a mystery to me.
> I'm trying to grab $Family "Scelionidae" from one dataframe and put it into
> another dataframe occupied with NA in $Family. The result is a "158" ends
> up there instead of Scelionidae....
2017 Nov 22
1
mystery "158"
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"c", "d", "e"), class = "factor")
Cheers
Petr
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> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Peter
> Langfelder
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> To: Glen Forister <gforister at gmail.com>
> Cc: R <r-help at r-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [R] mystery "158"
>
> Your data frame fam contains factors. Turn it into character strings using
>
> fam$Family = as.character(fam$Family)
>
> and try again. It may be helpful if you read up on...
2017 Nov 21
2
mystery "158"
This is a simple problem, but a mystery to me.
I'm trying to grab $Family "Scelionidae" from one dataframe and put it into
another dataframe occupied with NA in $Family. The result is a "158" ends
up there instead of Scelionidae.
Simply put fam$Family[1] <- least$Family[1]
If I have made a mistake here, can somebody point it out. I've included
the simple