[R] Weird problem with trying to change a variable

[Peter Flom]

I have a dataframe called cvar, with two variables (among many others)
called MSA and ACTUP.  Both are numeric.  This was working fine.  Then I
found out that for two MSAs, ACTUP should be 1, not 0.

so I tried

cvar$ACTUP[cvar$MSA == 6840] <- 1
cvar$ACTUP[cvar$MSA == 5360] <- 1

but when I try 

table(cvar$MSA, cvar$ACTUP)

the level of ACTUP for those two MSAs has not changed, and is still 0 


When I try

cvar$MSA  or cvar$ACTUP

I get lists, as I expect.  the MSA list includes 6840 and 5360

when I try

cvar$ACTUP[cvar$MSA == 5360]

I get numeric(0)



Any ideas?  What am I missing on a Friday afternoon?

Peter


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