15 < a & a < 20 Wrap it in a function if you like:
in_interval <- function(x, interval){ stopifnot(length(interval) == 2L) interval[1] < x & x < interval[2] } in_interval(a, c(15, 20)) Cheers, Michael On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Andras Farkas <motyoc...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > could you please give me some pointers on how I could make R screen for a > value if it falls within a certain range? > I looked at the subset function, but is not doing it, perhaps because I only > have 1 value to screen? > > aptreciate the input > > ex: > a <-16.5 > I would like to screen to see if a is within the range of 15 to 20, (which it > is:-)), and I would like the code to return a value of 1 if a is within the > specified range or 0 if it is not. > ______________________________________________ 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.