[R] pulling out 1 country and 1 wave

[Petr PIKAL]

Hi

> 
> Re: [R] pulling out 1 country and 1 wave
> 
> Well I don't think I have gotten Norway out.  That is my problem.
> 

Where is Norway? I do not have Norway in my simulated data. If you really 
want some help you need to provide 

> > > PLEASE do read the posting guide 
> > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

Failing to do that means that you actually do not want any help. What you 
presented is not reproducible and you did not follow any suggestion I 
made.

> I am sorry if I have confused you; I am quite confused myself which is 
not

I am not confused at all. At my side everything works as expected.

Regards
Petr

> typical of me.
> 
> ~Nicole
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Petr PIKAL" <petr.pikal at precheza.cz>
> To: "Nicole Marie Ford" <nmford at uwm.edu>
> Cc: "r-help" <r-help at r-project.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 1:21:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [R] pulling out 1 country and 1 wave
> 
> Hi
> 
> > Petr,
> > 
> > 
> > > wvs.a[,362]
> > 
> > 
> > ### wvs.a this is data set.
> > 
> > ###,362 is location of  year of wave.
> > 
> > > table(wvs.a[,362])
> > 
> > > norway <- wvs.a[which(wvs.a[,362] == "2005"), ]
> > 
> > ###  i am renaming dataset  'norway'
> > 
> > ### the year of the wave in question is '2005.'
> > 
> > > dim(norway) 
> > 
> > thanks, nicole.  =))
> > 
> > does this help you help me, any??
> 
> Not a tiny bit.
> 
> Let me generate the data, which as I am aware only you have for the time 

> being
> 
> mm<-matrix(sample(2000:2010, 3700, replace=T), 10,370)
> dim(mm)
> [1]  10 370
> wvs.a <- as.data.frame(mm)
> wvs.a[,362]
>  [1] 2000 2006 2002 2007 2000 2001 2009 2003 2004 2002
> table(wvs.a[,362])
> 
> 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2009 
>    2    1    2    1    1    1    1    1 
> norway <- wvs.a[which(wvs.a[,362] == "2005"), ]
> dim(norway) 
> [1]   0 370
> 
> So everything works. I do not see any problem, do you?
> 
> Regards
> Petr
> 
> > 
> > from here i need to pull out the country 'norway' which is in the 
> dataset 
> > as variable 'v218'..... 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Petr PIKAL" <petr.pikal at precheza.cz>
> > To: "Nicole Marie Ford" <nmford at uwm.edu>
> > Cc: "r-help" <r-help at r-project.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 11:49:39 PM
> > Subject: Re: [R] pulling out 1 country and 1 wave
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > > wvs.a[,362]
> > Error: object 'wvs.a' not found
> > > table(wvs.a[,362])
> > Error in table(wvs.a[, 362]) : object 'wvs.a' not found
> > > norway <- wvs.a[which(wvs.a[,362] == "2005"), ]
> > Error: object 'wvs.a' not found
> > > dim(norway) 
> > Error: object 'norway' not found
> > >
> > 
> > I get errors with all your commands and have no idea how to fix them 
> > without data. There is almost no clue how your data look like so I can 

> not 
> > simulate them myself. As there is nothing we can try to operate on, 
you 
> > probably does not get many answers.
> > 
> > Please provide at least structure of your data
> > 
> > str(wvs.a)
> > 
> > if not some part of it preferably by using 
> > 
> > ?dput.
> > 
> > Regards
> > Petr
> > 
> > 
> > > I have done the following to pull out the wave but now need to pull 
> out 
> > > the country form there...  but I am not sure how to do that without 
> > messing it up?
> > > 
> > > wvs.a[,362]
> > > table(wvs.a[,362])
> > > norway <- wvs.a[which(wvs.a[,362] == "2005"), ]
> > > dim(norway) 
> > > 
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Nicole Marie Ford" <nmford at uwm.edu>
> > > To: "r-help" <r-help at r-project.org>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 11:08:43 PM
> > > Subject: [R] pulling out 1 country and 1 wave
> > > 
> > > Hello.
> > > 
> > > I am trying to pull out one country from a time series of 5 waves. 
For 
> 
> > > example I need Norway from the 5th wave.  This is new to me. 
> Typically, 
> > I
> > > work with country specific surveys.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > data = norway
> > > 
> > > I have attached a .tiff of the codebook showing the variable names 
for 
> 
> > > Norway and the wave.  They appear to be Norway = v218 and wave = 
v15. 
> > But
> > > perhaps I am wrong and this is part of the problem. 
> > > 
> > > Below are examples of things I have tried.
> > > 
> > > For the record, no this is not at all HW, this is for my own 
research.
> > > 
> > > Thanks in advance. 
> > > 
> > > ~Nicole.
> > > 
> > > wvs.a[,v218]
> > > table(wvs.a[,v218])
> > > norway <- wvs.a[which(wvs.a[,v218] == "norway"), ]
> > > dim(norway)
> > > 
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