[BioC] asking for some code

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 02:41:36PM +0000, Adaikalavan Ramasamy wrote:
> sapply( x, my.switch.fn )  
> [1] 1.2655087 1.3721239 1.5728534 2.9082078 0.2016819
> 
> 
> In the case of 2 breakpoints, my example does not look much shorter than
> the if-else clause below. The drawback of my suggestion is that you need
> to know the min and max occuring values values (in this case 0 and 1)
> and switch does not have a default value.

You can use Inf/-Inf to get around not knowing he min and max, and you 
can indeed give a further argument to switch such like
  switch(x, 1 = "One",
            2 = "Two",
            "Everything else")

Kasper