[R] Add column from other columns data.

John Kane jrkrideau at inbox.com
Mon May 14 15:51:50 CEST 2012


Something along the lines of 

dat2  <-  ifelse( dat1==1 , "yes", "no")

should do it.

John Kane
Kingston ON Canada


> -----Original Message-----
> From: s1010265 at student.hsleiden.nl
> Sent: Mon, 14 May 2012 05:45:38 -0700 (PDT)
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Add column from other columns data.
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am having some problems with making a new colomn wit data in it.
> I have this one column named: Fulfilled
> 
> Fulfilled
> 1
> 1
> 0
> 1
> 1
> 1
> 1
> 0
> 0
> 1
> 
> And now I would like to add another colum to my .csv file ("Finished")
> 
> In this "Finished" column I would like to have "Yes" or "No".
> Where in colomn "Fullfilled" is a 1, "Finished" should have a "Yes".
> Like this:
> 
> Fullfilled Finished
> 1 Yes
> 1 Yes
> 0 No
> etc
> 
> Now I know how to grab the data out of a column, and also know how to
> save
> data inside a .csv file.
> That is no problem.
> But how do I get the right Yes or No on the right place in the other
> column?
> 
> # Get al values: 1
> Fullfilled_1 = Fullfilled[Fullfilled = 1]
> 
> I was thinkng about subset.
> But I don' t realy know if that would be realy it....
> 
> Maybe somebody here can push me a little in the right direction?
> 
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