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Hi All, I'm working on a class example that demonstrates one way to deal with factors and their labels. I create a function called myLabeler and apply it with lapply. It works on the whole data frame when I subscript it as in lapply( myQFvars[ ,myQFnames ], myLabeler ) but does not work if I leave the [] subscripts off. I would appreciate it if anyone could tell me why. The program below works up until the final two statements. Thanks, Bob # Assigning factor labels to potentially lots of vars. mystring<- ("id,workshop,gender,q1,q2,q3,...