The thing is I have about 10 cases. I saw the ifelse statement but was wondering if there was a cleaner method of doing it. The coding will get really messy when I write all 10 cases.
Cheers, Sachin On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:04 AM, arun <smartpink...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > Try this: > dat1<-data.frame(col1=c(rep("high",3),rep("Neutral",3),rep("low",4))) > > > dat1$col2<-ifelse(dat1$col1=="high",dat1$col2<-"H",ifelse(dat1$col1=="Neutral",dat1$col2<-"N","L")) > dat1 > col1 col2 > 1 high H > 2 high H > 3 high H > 4 Neutral N > 5 Neutral N > 6 Neutral N > 7 low L > 8 low L > 9 low L > 10 low L > > A.K. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Sachinthaka Abeywardana <sachin.abeyward...@gmail.com> > To: r-help@r-project.org > Cc: > Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2012 8:43 PM > Subject: [R] if else elseif for data frames > > Hi all, > > It seems like I cannot use normal 'if' for data frames. What would be the > best way to do the following. > > if data$col1='high' > data$col2='H' > else if data$col1='Neutral' > data$col2='N' > else if data$col='low' > data$col2='L' > else > #chuch a warning? > > > Note that col2 was not an existing column and was newly assigned for this > task. > > Thanks, > Sachin > > [[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. > > [[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.