fac.nested: creates a factor, the nested factor, whose values are generated within those of the factor
nesting.fac
Description
Creates a nested factor whose levels are generated
within those of the factor nesting.fac. All elements of nesting.fac
having the same level are numbered from 1 to the number of different elements
having that level.
The factor within each of whose levels the
created factor is to be generated.
nested.levs
Optional vector of levels for the factor. Any data
value that does not match a value in levels will be NA in
the factor. The default value of nested.levs is the list of
numbers from 1 to the maximum replication of the levels of
nesting.fac, represented as characters.
nested.labs
Optional vector of values to use as labels for the
levels of the factor. The default is as.character(nested.levs).
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Further arguments passed to the factor call creating the new factor.
Value
A factor that is a character vector with class attribute
"factor" and a levels attribute which
determines what character strings may be included in the vector. It has
a different level for of the values of the nesting.fac with the same level.