[R] [FORGED] if and

[Bert Gunter]

I note that you have "Year-month" (capital 'Y') and "year-month" in
your code; case matters in R.

Otherwise, Rolf's advice applies.

Cheers,
Bert

Bert Gunter

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and sticking things into it."
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On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 6:16 PM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> On 28/02/17 14:47, Val wrote:
>>
>> Currently I have  about  six or more  scripts that do the same job.  I
>> thought it might be possible and more efficient to use one script by using
>> IF ELSE statements. Here is an example but this will be expandable for
>> several countries ans year-months
>>
>>
>> Year-month = FEB2015, FEB2012,  Feb2010
>>  country  = USA, CAN.MEX
>> First I want to do if country = USA and year-month = FEB2015, FEB2012 do
>> the statements
>> second if country = CAN and year-month =Feb2010 do  the statements
>>
>>
>> if(country="USA" & year-month = "FEB2015" | "FEB2012" ){
>> statemnt1
>> .
>> statemnt10
>>
>> } else if (country="USA" & year-month ="FEB2015") {
>> statemnt1
>> .
>> statemnt10
>> }
>>
>> else
>> {
>> statemnt1
>> .
>> statemnt10
>> }
>>
>> The above script did not work. is there a different ways of doing it?
>
>
> Uh, yes.  Get the syntax right.  Use R, when you are using R.
>
> Looking at ?Syntax and ?Logic might help you a bit.
>
> Other than that, there's not much that one can say without seeing a
> reproducible example.  And if you sat down and wrote out a *reproducible
> example*, using correct R syntax, you probably wouldn't need any assistance
> from R-help.
>
> Have you read any of the readily available R tutorials?  If not do so. If
> so, read them again and actually take note of what they say!
>
> cheers,
>
> Rolf Turner
>
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