If you have a vector of factors it is easy to get the factor level; however, I always forget how to extract the factor value. I ran into the answer here.
> x<-factor(c(round(rnorm(10),2),"A","B",NA))
> x
1.61 1.12 1.26 0.09 -0.13 0.16 -0.03 -0.1 0.09 -0.47
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