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I have a 96x34 array of Likert scale data (96 cases, 34 items) of ordered factors (strongly disagree, disagree, neutral, agree, strongly agree) that are coded numerically (1 through 5). I cannot seem to convert this array (in any class) into ordered vectors. I have all the cases as vectors of ordered factors, but any which way I reassemble those vectors loses the ordered factors and converts