Thank you David and Steve, Yes all this data are already in R and in csv files. Sorry for not being clear.
I have this: Codes1and3[1:5,c(1:5)] Mark_2 pop Mark_1 Mark_3 age 1 P A1 139 alpha 2 2 P A1 140 alpha 2 3 P A1 141 gamma 2 4 S A1 142 gamma 2 5 S A1 143 alpha 2 6 T A2 144 alpha 2 7 T A2 145 alpha 2 I’m comparing Marks 1 and 3, then I need to know if the ones in Mark_2 in the general table have 1 or more interactions with Mark 3. For example here “P” appears in the same row than “alpha” and then in the same than “gamma”, then there are 2 interactions, so in a Boolean code it should be 1 (more than1 interaction). The same for “S”. But “T” only interacts with “alpha”, that will make it only one interaction = 0. The next colum I need is Code 1 referent to code 3 and in this case it should look like this: Code 1_3 1 1 2 1 3 1 4 1 5 1 6 0 I have tried to count but, of course in this case it will always be one, because they are linked in each row once, how can I consider the other rows? -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-do-I-assign-boolean-o-1-values-to-a-column-tp3544304p3547156.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.