Lisa wrote: > > Dear all, > > I have two sets of numbers that look like > > a <- c(1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, > 3, 4) > > b <- c(1, 5, 8, 9, 14, 20, 3, 10, 12, 6, 16, 7, 11, 13, 17, 18, 2, 4, 15, > 19) > > I just want to use “b” to encode “a” so that “a” looks like > > a1<- c(1, 5, 8, 8, 9, 9, 14, 20, 3, 10, 10, 12, 6, 16, 7, 11, 13, 13, 17, > 18, 2, 4, 15, 19) > > Does anyone have a suggestion how to deal with this? Thank you in advance. > > Lisa >
is a1 = b[a] what you are looking for? HTH Pete -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Recode-numbers-tp3566395p3566505.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.