I have a data frame, where two last columns - "month" and "year" - are
character vectors. The "year" vector is made of two numbers (i.e. "97"
for 1997, "07" for 2007, etc)
What I want to do is to create a variable "Year" that is mode numeric
and where each record is a four-figure number (1997, 2007,...)
I have about 40000 rows in the dataframe, the observations are for 10
years (so there are multiple rows for each year).
I tried the following, but the program runs and runs, and if I abort
it all the years in "Year" are 1997:
for(i in 1:dim(database)[1]){
if(database$year[i]>90) {
database$Year[i] <- as.numeric(database$year[i])+1900 } else {
database$Year[i] <- as.numeric(database$year[i])+2000
}
}
Thanks in advance for explanations.
Regards,
JM
--
Jonas Malmros
Stockholm University
Stockholm, Sweden
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