On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 09:55:47AM +0200, Philipp Pagel wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 02:58:00AM -0400, Brian Quinif wrote:
> > I tried this
> > years <- "Freshmen" if i==1
> > years <- "Sophomores" if i==2
>
> What you are looking for is not an if clause but logical indexing:
>
> years[years=
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 02:58:00AM -0400, Brian Quinif wrote:
>
> I have data on college students. I want to make a string variable
> that has the names of the years. That is, when the year variable i is
> equal to 1, I want to have a variable called years equal to
> "Freshmen".
>
> I tried thi
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Brian Quinif wrote:
> I am ashamed to be asking this question, but I couldn't find the
> solution anywhere. Searching for "if" and "R" is not very
> productive...
>
> I cannot get a simple if statement to work.
>
> I have data on college students. I want to make a string vari
Hi Ken,
Thanks for the help, but I should have mentioned that I want to do
this within a loop. Perhaps it would be better for me to explain my
exact situation.
I am running two loops so that I can calculate estimates for years
1,2,3,4 and a categorical GPA variable that takes on three values
0,1
How about the following, if you really want characters or just leave as
factor
i <- round(runif(10, 1, 4))
years <- as.character(factor(i, labels = c("Freshman", "Sophomore",
"Junior", "Senior")))
HTH,
ken
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I am ashamed to be asking this question, but I couldn't find the
solution anywhere. Searching for "if" and "R" is not very
productive...
I cannot get a simple if statement to work.
I have data on college students. I want to make a string variable
that has the names of the years. That is, when
