[R] Recoding a variable

[Spencer]

Hi All,

I'm relatively new to R. I have a variable, "internet use," which ranges 
from "Almost everyday, "Several times a week," "Several times a month," 
"Seldom," "Never," and  "Don't know." I want to recode this data into a 
new variable, say "use.internet," such that I have a dichotomous 
variable indicating simply whether or not they have access to the 
internet. Hence, I want to make "Never" and "Don't know" equal to 0, 
everything else 1. I thought about doing an if...then statement, but am 
not sure how to do this in R. This is easy to do in SPSS.

A sample of the existing array is the following:

Seldom               
Several times a week
Several times a month
Never
Never                
Never               
Seldom
Several times a week
Never               
Never               
Almost everyday      
Never  

And the ideal new variable:

1
1
1
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
1
0

Any help would be great!

-- 
Spencer Cohen
PhD Student
Department of Geography
University of Washington
Email: zhuge99 at u.washington.edu
Website: staff.washington.edu/zhuge99