On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 18:01:41 -0400 Dhiren DSouza wrote: > Hello: > > I have a matrix 'dat' with 2 columns. > > I have the following code: > > for (i in 1:nrows(dat)) > { > if (dat[i,1] < dat[i,2]) > { > dat[i,2]<-0 > } > > else > { > dat[i,2]<-1 > } > > Is there a way to accomplish this without the for loop?
For this setting dat[,2] <- as.numeric(dat[,1] >= dat[,2]) seems to work. For more complicated tasks look at ifelse(). hth, Z > Thank you. > > -Dhiren > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html