search for: site_indnum

...oks like this: 'data.frame': 3014 obs. of 13 variables: $ Num : int 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 ... $ Tag_Num : int 1195 1195 1195 1162 1162 1162 1106 1106 1106 1173 ... $ Site : Factor w/ 25 levels "PYBR002A","PYBR003B",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ... $ Site_IndNum : Factor w/ 1044 levels "PYBR002A_001",..: 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 ... .... ... $ Area : num 463.3 29.5 101.8 152.9 34.6 ... However, whenever I try to assign values, like this df2[j,1]<-df2$Site[i] the values are changed from alphanumeric (e.g. PYBR003A) to numerals (e.g. 1)....