[R] simplify this instruction

[Rolf Turner]

The issue worrying Wacek was presumably the fact that
the original poster was treating the ``B'' variable as
being character, rather than numeric.

So (presumably) what he *really* wanted to say was
(something like)

ifelse(B%in%as.character(0:9),"A","B")

Of course this is sheer pedantry.  I'm sure the original poster
was really concerned with a numeric variable and used the quote
marks around the digits out of confusion over what was required.
(Some misguided subconscious notion to the effect that to get character
output you need character input.)

	cheers,

		Rolf Turner

On 20/11/2008, at 5:06 PM, David Winsemius wrote:

>
> On Nov 19, 2008, at 8:38 PM, Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote:
>
>> Jorge Ivan Velez wrote:
>>>
>>>> B=0:12
>>>> B
>>>>
>>> [1]  0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12
>>>
>>>> ifelse(B%in%c(0:9),'A','B')
>>>>
>>> [1] "A" "A" "A" "A" "A" "A" "A" "A" "A" "A" "B" "B" "B"
>>>
>>>
>>
>> given the example, the solution would rather be
>>
>> if (B %in% as.character(0:9)) "A" else "B"
>>
>> or maybe
>>
>> if (as.numeric(B) %in% 0:9) "A" else "B"
>
> Er, ... The solution offered by Velez duplicates the action of the
> nested ifelse expressions offered by the original poster. Your
> alternatives do not. The ifelse(cond, consequenceA, consequenceB)
> function operates on a vector and returns a vector of equal length,
> whereas:
>
>   if cond consequenceA else consequenceB    # only returns a single
> item.
>
>> B <- 0:12
>> ifelse(B %in% c(0:9), 'A', 'B')
>   [1] "A" "A" "A" "A" "A" "A" "A" "A" "A" "A" "B" "B" "B"
>
>> if (B %in% as.character(0:9)) "A" else "B"
> [1] "A"
> Warning message:
> In if (B %in% as.character(0:9)) "A" else "B" :
>    the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be  
> used
>
>> if (as.numeric(B) %in% 0:9) "A" else "B"
> [1] "A"
> Warning message:
> In if (as.numeric(B) %in% 0:9) "A" else "B" :
>    the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be  
> used
>
>> ifelse(B=="0","A",
> + ifelse(B=="1","A",
> + ifelse(B=="2","A",
> + ifelse(B=="3","A",
> + ifelse(B=="4","A",
> + ifelse(B=="5","A",
> + ifelse(B=="6","A",
> + ifelse(B=="7","A",
> + ifelse(B=="8","A",
> + ifelse(B=="9","A","B"))))))))))
>   [1] "A" "A" "A" "A" "A" "A" "A" "A" "A" "A" "B" "B" "B"
>>
>
> -- 
> David Winsemius
> Heritage Labs
>>
>>
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:42 PM, CE.KA <ce.kaya75 at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi R users,
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a way to simplify this instruction:
>>>>> ifelse(B=="0","A",
>>>>> ifelse(B=="1","A",
>>>>> ifelse(B=="2","A",
>>>>> ifelse(B=="3","A",
>>>>> ifelse(B=="4","A",
>>>>> ifelse(B=="5","A",
>>>>> ifelse(B=="6","A",
>>>>> ifelse(B=="7","A",
>>>>> ifelse(B=="8","A",
>>>>> ifelse(B=="9","A","B"))))))))))
>>>>>
>>>>> i am looking for something like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> ifelse(B=="(0:9)","A","B")
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>
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