[R] Creatng new variable based upon conditions
Bert Gunter
bgunter@4567 @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Thu Jul 26 22:36:31 CEST 2018
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> On 07/26/2018 08:58 PM, JEFFERY REICHMAN wrote:
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>> Given something like ...
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>> x <- c(3,2,4,3,5,4,3,2,4,5)
>> y <- c("A","B","B","A","A","A","A","B","A","B")
>> xy <- data.frame(x,y)
>> xy$w <- ifelse(xy$y=="A",xy$w[,x]*10,xy$w[,x]*15 )
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> You should learn the basics about how to extract or replace part of an
> object, in particular data.frames. You can start by reading the help page
> of ?"Extract".
>
Agreed!
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> xy$w <- ifelse(xy$y=="A",xy$x*10,xy$x*15 )
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## or perhaps more simply:
xy$w <- with(xy, ifelse(y=="A", x*10, x*15))
See ?with
Cheers,
Bert
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> HTH,
> Denes
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>> want to see
>>
>> x y w
>> 1 3 A 30
>> 2 2 B 30
>> 3 4 B 60
>> 4 3 A 30
>> 5 5 A 50
>> 6 4 A 40
>> 7 3 A 30
>> 8 2 B 30
>> 9 4 A 40
>> 10 5 B 75
>>
>> but I get NA's
>>
>> Jeff
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