Creating and merging factor levels

[Gerald.Jean@spgdag.ca]

Hello S-users,

when creating factors is it possible to merge levels of a character
variable as the factor is created?  In other words can the following be
done in one operation.

ttt <- factor(ttt.char, levels = c("N", "O", "S")
ttt <- merge.levels(ttt, k = list(" Non" = "N",
                                  " Oui" = c("O", "S")))


Thanks,

Gérald Jean
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