[R] replace a value in a vector

Peter Dalgaard p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Thu Oct 7 23:53:51 CEST 2004


"Paul Lepp" <pwlepp at pmgm2.stanford.edu> writes:

> OK, so this is a really stupid question and should be incredibly simple to
> do but I can't figure it out. So maybe someone would be so kind as to tell
> me.
> I have a vector of zeros and ones.  I want to replace all of the zeros with
> "black" and all of the ones with "gray".  That's it.  Any help would be
> appreciated.

v2 <- ifelse(v==0,"black","gray")

or

v2 <- c("black","gray")[v+1]

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