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I think that title makes sense... I hope it does... I have a data frame, one of the columns of which is a factor. I want the rows of data that correspond to the level in that factor which occurs the most times. I can get a list by doing: by(data,data$pattern,subset) And go through each element of the list counting the rows, to find the maximum.... BUT I can't help thinking there's

I'm having a bit of trouble recoding factors in a fields. I have a field which has the factors Singleton, Twin and Triplet. I want to recode the field to have only the factors Singleton and Multiple. Any advice? Cheers, Neil