Dear Rhelpers,
Is there a faster way than below to set a vector based on values from
another vector? I'd like to call a pre-existing function for this, but one
which can also handle an arbitrarily large number of categories. Any ideas?
Cat=c('a','a','a','b','b','b','a','a','b') # Categorical variable
C1=vector(length=length(Cat)) # New vector for numeric values
# Cycle through each column and set C1 to corresponding value of Cat.
for(i in 1:length(C1)){
if(Cat[i]=='a') C1[i]=-1 else C1[i]=1
}
C1
[1] -1 -1 -1 1 1 1 -1 -1 1
Cat
[1] "a" "a" "a" "b" "b" "b" "a" "a" "b"
Sincerely,
KeithC.
Psych Undergrad, CU Boulder (US)
RE McNair Scholar
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