[R] For loop with i and j and multiple if statements... help!

[Pieter Schoonees]

Without commenting on the method itself, shouldn't you be using both x and y twice within each loop instead of x three times and y only once?

Please provide a snippet of your data by including the output of dput(head(data,30)) for example.

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> Subject: [R] For loop with i and j and multiple if statements... help!
> 
> Dear all!
> 
> I'm quite new to R and at this moment a little bit lost in trying to
> make a function work with a for loop that has two variables (i and j)
> and multiple if statements..
> I hope that someone of you could help me. I would very appreciate it!
> 
> What do I want to do? I am analysing the data of an 'eye tracker'. The
> eye tracker registers the coordinates to which participants looked
> while reading a website.
> 
> The data looks like this:
> 
>  Number   x   y
> 1      1 701 209
> 2      2 685 209
> 3      3 566 248
> 4      4 562 234
> 5      5 601 225
> 6      6 608 232
> [....]
> 
> To assign look zones, I looked which zone (e.g. the references) is
> represented by which coordinates. This give the following results:
> Look zone 1 = x > 170, x < 1250, y > 150 and y < 480 look sone 2 = x >
> 170, x < 420, y > 480 and y < 810.
> 
> Now I would like to assign a lookzone for each subject by the means of
> a function with a for loop.
> 
> I've made this:
> 
> lookzones <- function(input){
> 
>                 lookzone <- matrix(0, nrow(input), 1)#Make space for
> lookzone variables
> 
> for(i in 1:nrow(input)){
> for(j in 1:nrow(input)){
>                  if (x[i] > 170 && x[i] < 1250 && x[j] > 150 && y[j] <
> 480) {lookzone <- 1}
>                  if (x[i] > 170 && x[i] < 420  && x[j] > 480 && y[j] <
> 810) {lookzone <- 2}
>                           }
>             list(lookzone = lookzone)
>                     input <- cbind(input, lookzone)
>                         }
> }
> 
> First, there is a variable made (lookzone) in which the values of the
> lookzones can be stored. Then in the for loop, it is tested whether all
> conditions are met (see above) and then a value is assigned to the
> lookzone variable.
> The input variable is a data set that looks like the data above.
> 
> However, the function does not seem to work.
> When I run it, R assigns a value '1' to every x/y combination.
> 
> Can someone help me with this?
> 
> Thank you so much !
> 
> Bye, inga
> 
> 
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