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Hi R-helpers, I am trying to use this ifelse statement to recode a variable: > data$SOCIAL_STATUS<-ifelse(data$SOCIAL_STATUS=="B" & data$MALE>4, "C", "B") (i.e., if social status is B and there are more than 4 males, then recode social status to C; otherwise, leave it B) But, it's not working. See the below R output. Notice that there were 71 "...

Hi R-helpers, Please see the below R output. The problem is that after running the ifelse statement, data$SOCIAL_STATUS is converted from a factor to a character. Is there some way I can avoid this conversion? Thanks in advance, Mark Na > str(data) 'data.frame': 2100 obs. of 11 variables: $ DATE : Factor w/ 5 levels "4-Jun-09","7-May-09",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ... $ PON...