Hi,
I have a question regarding the creation of new variables on the basis of
existing ones in R.
I have two variables containing information on parents' educational degree
(e.g. 1 'high school degree', 2 'college degree', etc.). I would like to create
a new variable for 'parents' highest educational degree', i.e. if variable1
(father's degree) is higher than variable2 (mother's degree) than the new
variable (variable3) should take on the value of variable1, if not, than
variable3 should take on the value of variable2.
I usually use SPSS for data manipulation, there I would code variable3 as
follows:
COMPUTE variable3= 0.
IF variable1 > variable2 variable3= variable1.
IF variable1 <= variable2 variable3= variable2.
The closest I came to that in R was with this code:
data$variable3 <- 0
data$variable3[data$variable1 > data$variable2]<-data$variable1
data$variable3[data$variable1 <= data$variable2]<-data$variable2
I also tried:
data$variable3 <- ifelse(data$variable1 > data$variable2), data$variable1,
data$variable2)
Both didn't work.
I am not sure if my post is at all understandable (this is my first time
posting on R-help), but I am really hoping for some advice!
Thanks!
Jen
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Jennifer Lorenz, M.A.
Georg-August-Universit�t G�ttingen
Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakult�t
Institut f�r Erziehungswissenschaft
Lehrstuhl Schulp�dagogik / Empirische Schulforschung
e-mail: jlor...@uni-goettingen.de
phone: 0551-39-21411
adress: Waldweg 26, 37073 G�ttingen
room: 8.106
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