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authorBruno Kim Medeiros Cesar <brunokim.mc@gmail.com>2014-11-01 01:37:26 -0200
committerBruno Kim Medeiros Cesar <brunokim.mc@gmail.com>2014-11-01 01:37:26 -0200
commita32bb0a2cc3b53b4ffa4d2e93ebe664afb7a7729 (patch)
tree6eb61d3716f4f23e07f1882554f34cc9f8f5b8ed /r.html.markdown
parentcd7a2e72d5850974ecd330004f3546adfbd4fe75 (diff)
Remove misleading example of NA in Levels section
The levels section was using a level "NA" together with "female" and "male", which is misleading (given that NA was just introduced as a missing value). I updated it to what I believe is a better example of how NAs are interpreted. Additionally, I edited a comment about Inf that wouldn't compile. How about inserting it at the tutorial altogether?
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@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ c(3,3,3,2,2,1) # 3 3 3 2 2 1
# You can also have infinitely large or small numbers
class(Inf) # "numeric"
class(-Inf) # "numeric"
-# You might use "Inf", for example, in integrate( dnorm(x), 3, Inf);
+# You might use "Inf", for example, in integrate(dnorm, 3, Inf);
# this obviates Z-score tables.
# BASIC ARITHMETIC
@@ -236,11 +236,12 @@ c('Z', 'o', 'r', 'r', 'o') == "Z" # TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE
# FACTORS
# The factor class is for categorical data
# Factors can be ordered (like childrens' grade levels) or unordered (like gender)
-factor(c("female", "female", "male", "NA", "female"))
-# female female male NA female
-# Levels: female male NA
+factor(c("female", "female", "male", NA, "female"))
+# female female male <NA> female
+# Levels: female male
# The "levels" are the values the categorical data can take
-levels(factor(c("male", "male", "female", "NA", "female"))) # "female" "male" "NA"
+# Note that missing data does not enter the levels
+levels(factor(c("male", "male", "female", NA, "female"))) # "female" "male"
# If a factor vector has length 1, its levels will have length 1, too
length(factor("male")) # 1
length(levels(factor("male"))) # 1