[R] Defining categories

[arun]

Hi,
May be this:
dat1<-read.table(text="
2.880556
0.616667
5.083333
0.858333
0.466667
2.936111
4.258333
0.258333
2.033333
2.583333
1.088889
0.447222
1.872222
0.080556
4.033333
4.116667
1.633333
2.147222
",sep="",header=FALSE)
dat1$category<-ifelse(dat1$V1<=1 &dat1$V1>0,1,ifelse(dat1$V1>1 & dat1$V1<=2,2,ifelse(dat1$V1>2&dat1$V1<=3,3,ifelse(dat1$V1>3&dat1$V1<=4,4,ifelse(dat1$V1>4&dat1$V1<=5,5,6)))))


 head(dat1)
#        V1 category
#1 2.880556        3
#2 0.616667        1
#3 5.083333        6
#4 0.858333        1
#5 0.466667        1
#6 2.936111        3
A.K.



----- Original Message -----
From: bibek sharma <mbhpathak at gmail.com>
To: r-help at r-project.org
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Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 6:52 PM
Subject: [R] Defining categories

Hello R user,

Data below represent year in decimal. I would like to catagorize it
in such a way that any valye [0,1] goes to catagory 1 , (1,2] goes to
catagory 2 and so on..
Any suggestion how it can be done with if else statement or any other way?

2.880556
0.616667
5.083333
0.858333
0.466667
2.936111
4.258333
0.258333
2.033333
2.583333
1.088889
0.447222
1.872222
0.080556
4.033333
4.116667
1.633333
2.147222

Thank you for  your help.
Bibek

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