I have a variable that identifies citizen type but some of my rows are blank. I want to replace the blank entries with the correct value which is conditional on another variable. In SAS, my conditional statement would be as follow: if citizenType="" and primarylanguage="English" then citizenType ="US citizen"; else citizenType=citizenType; When I try to duplicate this conditional statement in R I get the following error: Will you show me the correct syntax? social$CitizenType<-if(social$CitizenType=="" ||social$PrimaryLanguage=="English","US Citizen" ) Error: unexpected ',' in "social$CitizenType<-if(social$CitizenType=="" ||social$PrimaryLanguage=="English"," social$CitizenType<-if(social$CitizenType=="" && social$PrimaryLanguage=="English","US Citizen" ) Error: unexpected ',' in "social$CitizenType<-if(social$CitizenType=="" && social$PrimaryLanguage=="English","
social$CitizenType[social$CitizenType==""]<-if(social$CitizenType[social$CitizenType==""] && social$PrimaryLanguage[social$PrimaryLanguage=="English"],"US Citizen" ) Error: unexpected ',' in "social$CitizenType[social$CitizenType==""]<-if(social$CitizenType[social$CitizenType==""] && social$PrimaryLanguage[social$PrimaryLanguage=="English"]," > Chris Anderson 707.315.8486 www.sassydeals4u.com ____________________________________________________________ Click now for prescreened plumbing contractors. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2241/fc/BLSrjpYePbmJll7hN4GC9GCio2T0Hpy2G8xkxYL2nS71xPBRcqvSBxjyBqQ/ [[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.
