title: Trying to to compare two different classes of variables in R
body: <p>I am working in a dataset where some variables are characters and others are numeric. Out of tens of thousands of observations, some have received funding to do a project. Project is a character variable with different a few different options, depending on what they project they did; some observations just have "none" in that column.</p>
  
  <p>I am trying to run some basic stats on the different possibilities within the Project variable. as well as run some plots to see where the different project recipients fall compared to other variables in the dataset, which are <em>mostly</em> numeric covariates. </p>
  
  <p>For example, one piece of my code is <code>plot((Housing_Data$Project), (Housing_Data$Size))</code>; but I get a terrible visualization because I don't know how to look at the observations for one type of project at a time.</p>
  
  <p>Can someone tell me how to do the equivalent of <code>(Housing_Data$Project, = "None")</code>? Or something similar?</p>