Update survey object with repeated factor levels

Asked Mar 28 '17 at 04:34

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I have a survey object with one variable that has six factor levels. I'm trying to group the first two, the second two, and the last two levels so that I then have only three levels which I can give descriptive names to.

I have been trying to adapt:

X=update(X, Passed=factor(Pass), labels=c("No Pass", "No Pass", "Pass", "Pass", NA, NA))

But have been getting the error:

Error in `[<-.data.frame`(`*tmp*`, , newnames[j], value = c("No Pass",  : 
  replacement has 6 rows, data has 5444

Have I made a silly mistake or have I got the wrong end of the stick?

For Example:

No Pass values are 1 and 2

Pass values are 3 and 4

Then 7 and 8 are NA

Obs Passed

1         1

2         2

3         1

4         7

5         3

6         3

7         3

8         2

9         1

10        4

edited Mar 28 '17 at 07:55

asked Mar 28 '17 at 04:34

A.May

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I think you're looking for something like `X$Pass – alistaire Mar 28 '17 at 04:44
Thank you! I'll give that a go. – A.May Mar 28 '17 at 07:50
**Update** From the above comment, the following code worked to solve the error: `X$variables$Pass – A.May Mar 28 '17 at 08:17

Update survey object with repeated factor levels

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