R: ifelse function returns vector position instead of value (string)

Question

I have a very strange problem concerning the ifelse function: it does not return a factor (as I want) but something like the position of the factor.

The dataset I u

Answer 1

The field answer is factor, hence your function returns number (level of factor).

What you need to do is:

aDDs$answer <- as.character(aDDs$answer)

and then it works.