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stats (version 3.2.5)

relevel: Reorder Levels of Factor

Description

The levels of a factor are re-ordered so that the level specified by ref is first and the others are moved down. This is useful for contr.treatment contrasts which take the first level as the reference.

Usage

relevel(x, ref, ...)

Arguments

x
An unordered factor.
ref
The reference level.
...
Additional arguments for future methods.

Value

A factor of the same length as x.

See Also

factor, contr.treatment, levels, reorder.

Examples

Run this code
warpbreaks$tension <- relevel(warpbreaks$tension, ref = "M")
summary(lm(breaks ~ wool + tension, data = warpbreaks))

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