[R] How to check to see if a variable is within a range of another variable

[Kate Ignatius]

Apologise - yes, my 10% calculations seem to be slightly off.

However, the function gives me all falses which seems to be a little
weird.   Even where both columns equal each other.   Should that be
right?

In essence I want to check whether A and B equal other give or take 10%.

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Peter Alspach
<Peter.Alspach at plantandfood.co.nz> wrote:
> Tena koe Kate
>
> If kateDF is a data.frame with your data, then
>
> apply(kateDF, 1, function(x) isTRUE(all.equal(x[2], x[1], check.attributes = FALSE, tolerance=0.1)))
>
> comes close to (what I think) you want (but not to what you have illustrated in your 'eventual outcome').  Anyhow, it may be enough to allow you to get there.
>
> HTH ....
>
> Peter Alspach
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, 2 October 2014 11:11 a.m.
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> Subject: [R] How to check to see if a variable is within a range of another variable
>
> Is there an easy way to check whether a variable is within  +/- 10% range of another variable in R?
>
> Say, if I have a variable 'A', whether its in +/- 10% range of variable 'B' and if so, create another variable 'C' to say whether it is or not?
>
> Is there a function that is able to do that?
>
> eventual outcome:
> A B C
> 67 76 no
> 24 23 yes
> 40 45 yes
> 10 12 yes
> 70 72 yes
> 101 90 no
> 9 12 no
>
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