[R] Using if, else statements

[jim holtman]

You would have something that looks like this:

if (data$d.o.w == "Sat") data$admission <- round(data$admission * 1.21)
if (data$d.o.w == "Sun") .......



On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Robin Williams <robster3 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Again I have searched the net and so on, without finding an answer to this
> surely simple problem. A short bit of code would be appreciated.
>
>  I have a object named `data' with the following column headings.
>
> Date, maxitemp, minitemp, admissions, d.o.w.
>
> Where d.o.w. is day of the week, written "Sun" "Mon" etc.
>
>  I just need to scale the Monday admissions by 0.91, the Saturday
> admissions by 1.21 and the Sunday admissions by 1.22. So basically what I
> want is:
>
> If d.o.w. == "Sat"
>
> Multiply Sat admissions by 1.21.
>
> (Now do I need an else statement here, or can I just do another)
>
> If d.o.w. == "Sun"
>
> Multiply "Sun" admissions by 1.22
>
> (and finally)
>
> If d.o.w. == "Mon"
>
> Multiply Monday admissions by 0.91.
>
> Else do nothing.
>
>  I assume in my code I need to specify that I am using the data.frame
> `data', so do I need to write things like
>
> If(data[d.o.w.]=="Mon")
>
>  I would then like to round the new admissions to integers (I assume I just
> use round(data$admissions)), and output the new data to another csv file.
>
>  I could of course do this in excel but I will need to extend this type of
> idea in the future so I would like to master it in R.
>
> Many thanks for any help/code.
>
> Robin Williams.
>
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