[R] conditional recoding a variable

[jim holtman]

Should be (I think): (default condition and the use of "|" instead of "||")

social$CitizenType<-if(social$CitizenType=="" |
social$PrimaryLanguage=="English","US Citizen", social$CitizenType )

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:19 AM, jim holtman<jholtman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think you want to use 'ifelse':
>
> social$CitizenType<-ifelse(social$CitizenType==""
> ||social$PrimaryLanguage=="English","US Citizen" )
>
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Chris Anderson<chris6764 at netzero.net> wrote:
>> I have a variable that identifies citizen type but some of my rows are blank. I want to replace the blank entries with the correct value which is conditional on another variable. In SAS, my conditional statement would be as follow:
>> if citizenType="" and primarylanguage="English" then citizenType ="US citizen"; else citizenType=citizenType;
>> When I try to duplicate this conditional statement in R I get the following error: Will you show me the correct syntax?
>> social$CitizenType<-if(social$CitizenType=="" ||social$PrimaryLanguage=="English","US Citizen" )
>> Error: unexpected ',' in "social$CitizenType<-if(social$CitizenType=="" ||social$PrimaryLanguage=="English","
>>
>>  social$CitizenType<-if(social$CitizenType=="" && social$PrimaryLanguage=="English","US Citizen" )
>> Error: unexpected ',' in "social$CitizenType<-if(social$CitizenType=="" && social$PrimaryLanguage=="English","
>>
>> social$CitizenType[social$CitizenType==""]<-if(social$CitizenType[social$CitizenType==""] && social$PrimaryLanguage[social$PrimaryLanguage=="English"],"US Citizen" )
>> Error: unexpected ',' in "social$CitizenType[social$CitizenType==""]<-if(social$CitizenType[social$CitizenType==""] && social$PrimaryLanguage[social$PrimaryLanguage=="English"],"
>>>
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