ribiosUtils (version 1.5-6)

refactorNum: Sort numeric factor levels by values

Description

Factor variables with numbers as levels are alphabetically ordered by default, which requires rearrangements for various purposes, e.g. modelling or visualizations. This function re-orders levels of numeric factor variables numerically.

Usage

refactorNum(x, decreasing = FALSE)

Arguments

x

A factor variable with numeric values as levels

decreasing

Logical, should the levels sorted descendingly?

Value

A factor variable, with sorted numeric values as levels

Examples

# NOT RUN {
(nums <- factor(c("2","4","24","1","2","125","1","2","125")))
(nums.new <- refactorNum(nums))

# }