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Dear All, a short and maybe simple question: I have to rank all values in a matrix from 0 to X, [1] [2] [3] [4] [1] 0.1 2 0 3 [2] 50 3 3 1 [3] 100 1 1 0 [4] 100 2 2 0 0->0 0.1->1 2->2 3->3 50->4 100->5 (X=5) is there any function for this? i have looked in several packages (vegan, labdsv etc.) because I am working with species by site tables,

Dear all, I would like to know if there is an easy to transform a vector of strings to a vector of integers. Ex: ("ab","ab","bb","cat","cat","ab") will be (1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 1) Thx, Naira -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/From-strings-to-numbers-tp17315179p17315179.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at

Dear all, I would like to know whether it is possible to unlist elements and keep the original format of the data. To make it more clear, let me give an exemple: I have a list l of dataframes that I created with apply but which looks like this: x1=data.frame(Name=LETTERS[1:2],Age=1:2) x2=data.frame(Name=LETTERS[3:4],Age=3:4) l=list(x1,x2) l [[1]] Name Age 1 A 1 2 B 2 [[2]] Name