[R] Problem with recode -Error in parse(text = range[[1]][1]) : unexpected end of input in " c(0"

[Peter Ehlers]

Get rid of the unnecessary c(...) construction:

  recode(green_2004_2$french, "50:100=0; 0:49.99=1")

  -Peter Ehlers

On 2010-04-14 1:56, Simon Kiss wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
> in the help archive there was a previous person who encountered a
> problem with the "recode" command in the car library. I'm not sure if
> that was solved, there was no posting to that effect, but I'm having the
> same problem.
>
> I'm trying to recode a numeric variable with values from 0-100 into a
> binary variable with values (0,1).
>
> The following command:
>
> recode(green_2004_2$french, "c(50:100)=0; c(0:49.99)=1")
>
> gets the following error message
>
> Error in parse(text = range[[1]][1]) : unexpected end of input in " c(0"
>
> I tried it with a second numerical variable in the same data set, but
> get precisely the same error at precisely the same location in the
> command, i.e. the second colon.
> As far as I can tell I have the most up-to-date version of car installed.
> Any suggestions?
> Yours, Simon Kiss
>
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Peter Ehlers
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