[R] Creating a directory for my data

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
Wed Mar 11 10:45:18 CET 2009


Hmmm, in fact I do not understand what you are going to do. Can you tell 
us what the result of your code should look like?

Uwe Ligges



miya wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I am currently working with a very large data set. It is data collected a
> few times a day, so there are repeated titles in the data set. I want to
> assign an id number to each different title and enter this information in a
> directory that I can access whenever I am working with the data.
> 
> An example of a data I am workin with follows:
> 
> 1     title A
> 2     title C
> 3     title B
> 1     title A
> 2     title B
> 3     title C
> 1     title D
> 2     title A
> 3     title C
> 1     title B
> 2     title A
> 3     title C
> 
> What I have tried thus far is for loops.
> 
> r<-matrix(x[,1])
> t<-matrix(x[,2])
> for(i in 1:length(t)) {
> 	for(k in 1:length(r)) {
> 		z = matrix(c(i,t))
> 		A = "Article A"
> 			for(j in 1:length(z)){
> 				if(B=="Article A")
> 
> 				else{enter article in z}
> 			}
> }
> 
> This is of course giving me a lot of errors. I just have no idea where to go
> with this. Does anyone have any ideas on where I can go from here to create
> my directory?
> I appreciate all your help.
> Thank you in advance.
>




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