[R] Recoding

Agustin Lobo aloboaleu at gmail.com
Fri Jun 27 20:41:14 CEST 2008


Hi!

Given a vector (or a factor within a df),i.e. v1 <- c(1,1,1,2,3,4,1,10,3)
and a dictionary
cbind(c(1,2,3),c(1001,1002,1003))

is there a function (on the same line than recode() in car)
to get v2 as c(1001,1001,1001,1002,1003,4,1001,10,1003) ?

I'm using myself a function based on match() since
long ago (I think that thanks to advice by Prof. B. Ripley),
but would like to know if there is an standard function (i.e., like
recode()). What I'm using is:

"reclas" <- function(v, origen, imagen, directo = T, resto=1)
{
         if(directo == F) {
         	aux <- origen
                 origen <- imagen
                 imagen <- aux
         }
         m <- match(v, origen, 0)
         #print("match finished")
         if(resto==0) v <- v*0
         v[m > 0] <- imagen[m]
         v
}

Agus

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