> > Hi Petr, > > Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately my repetition is not uniform, but
> dependent on values given in column B, which varies by each row. > > Does this make it any clearer? Not much. let say > A <- letters[1:10] > B <- sample(1:3, 10, replace =TRUE) > A [1] "a" "b" "c" "d" "e" "f" "g" "h" "i" "j" > B [1] 2 3 2 3 1 1 1 3 1 1 Than > rep(A,B) [1] "a" "a" "b" "b" "b" "c" "c" "d" "d" "d" "e" "f" "g" "h" "h" "h" "i" "j" gives you repeating letters according to values in second vector. If this is not what you want, try to send some artificial example which illustrates what you really have and what is desired result. Regards Petr > > Ric > On 5 October 2011 23:44, Petr PIKAL <petr.pi...@precheza.cz> wrote: > Hi > > > > > I would appreciate help in knowing how to repeat categorical variable > code > > given in column=A, by the number in a matching column=B. > > For example, I have a categorical variable code attributed to a > household=A > > and want to replicate the code for all member of the household, as given > in > > column=B. I would like to have one sequence of categorical variable > codes > > for individuals in column C. I have ~9000 values in A and my C will be > > ~52000. > > > > E.g > > (A) (B) (C) > > 1 1 1 > > 2 2 2 > > 1 1 2 > > 2 3 1 > > 2 > > 2 > > 2 > > > > Any ideas would be gratefully accepted by a novice R user. > I am not sure if I understand your problem but does rep(A, B) > > give you what you want? > > rep(letters[1:3], 1:3) > [1] "a" "b" "b" "c" "c" "c" > > Regards > Petr > > > > > > Ric > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > ______________________________________________ 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.
