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Here is my question: I have a factor type variable composed of three levels 'NON','Oui' and 'OUI'. So when I write the variable on the console, I get these results:

fac

[1] NON

Levels: NON Oui OUI

My question is if there is a way to get the NON in front of the [1] without getting the factor levels. In other words, i want to store NON (which is the output of 'fac') in another variable without taking the levels line .

SOLVED: Thank you all. I wanted to store the output in a variable and the solution was to use as.character(fac)

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    try as.character(fac) Commented Feb 14, 2018 at 13:13

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As @jaySf pointed out in the comments of your question, you change the vector type from factor to character:

as.character(fac)


Additional Info:

When you enter fac into the console, what you are really saying is:

print(fac)

The print function comes with different parameters, including the max.levels option

So you can specifically print fac without the levels by specifying:

print(fac, max.levels=0)

This will give you the output you want.

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Sorry, I didn't notice that you wanted to store the ouput into a variable. In that case, @jaySf response as.character(fac) does the trick!
Why don't you add that to your answer? (I initially wrote a similar to answer to yours, then deleted it; the OP's question was easy to misread.)

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