Creating a factor from a numeric variable

Question

I am quite new to R and I am having some troubles with creating factors. I should create a factor from a numeric variable. This factor should have three levels: dissatisfied (v

Answer 1

I would probably just use cut:

> x <- 0:10
> cut(x = x,breaks = c(0,4,5,10),include.lowest = TRUE,
      labels = c('Dissatisfied','Either/Or','Satisfied'))
 [1] Dissatisfied Dissatisfied Dissatisfied Dissatisfied Dissatisfied Either/Or    Satisfied    Satisfied   
 [9] Satisfied    Satisfied    Satisfied   
Levels: Dissatisfied Either/Or Satisfied