[R] simple if statement

[Philipp Pagel]

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=="Freshmen"] <- 1
> years[years=="Sophomores"] <- 2
[...]


OK - I'll have to comment myself: I misread your message and it does not
make sense for you question.

Others have given good answers in the meantime...

cu
	Philipp



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