Dear PDXRugger,
If I understand correctly, try this:

# Data
x = c(1:5,1,4,7)

# Option 1
require(car)
y1=recode(x, "1=4; 4=2; 7=3")

# Option 2
y2=ifelse(x==1,4,
ifelse(x==4,2,
ifelse(x==7,3,x)))

# Are y1 and y2 equals?
all.equal(y1,y2)

# Ordering x by y1
x[order(y1)]

See ?order, ?ifelse and ?recode in the 'car' package for more information.

HTH,

Jorge


On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 6:19 PM, PDXRugger <J_R_36@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> I have consulted the intro and nabble but have not found an answer to what
> should be a simple question, here goes:
>
> I am doing a crosscheck of a data frame and pulling out a single value
> based
> on an inputted value ie based on x i will select y, or if x =2 then my code
> returns 7.
>
> x    y
> 1   4
> 2   7
> 3   10
> 4   2
>
> My code currently iterates through for as many times as the length of the x
> dataframe.  What i would like to do is then is to build a vector for those
> values selected.  so if vector x  = 1,4,7 then "new-y" would equal 4, 2, 3.
>
> x    y
> 1   4
> 2   7
> 3   10
> 4   2
> 5   21
> 6   13
> 7  3
> 8  90
>
> I need to ultimetly re-sort my x vector based on the values of y but the
> function i am using is the subset function and i cant do it without y being
> a vector itself and it is currently only a one value object.
>
> #Creates test Candidates Vector
> Candidates=c(100,101,102,103,104,105)
>
> #Creates object equaling the number of candidate TAZs from the main script
> Location Choice Model
> NumCands1=length(Candidates)
>
> Dev..At=9999999
>        for(i in 1:NumCands1){
>
>        #Renames Location Choice Model generated TAZ's object
>        Loc_Mod_TAZ=Candidates[i]
>
>        #Converts Development size from main script to Development density
> function
> format
>        Dev_Size=Dev..At
>
>        #This is my "y" value in the example i gave above, this is the value
> that i
> need put into a           #          vector, a vector that should have as
> many values as there are number of candidates
>        TAZDetermine_FEET=TAZ_VAC_FEET[TAZ_VAC_FEET$TAZ==Loc_Mod_TAZ,2]
>
>        #Creates new vector based on adaquate vacancy in the TAZ and the
> development to be located
>        Newcands=subset(Loc_Mod_TAZ, TAZDetermine_FEET>=Dev_Size)
>
>
>        }
>
> Thanks for the help
> Cheers,
> JR
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