Hello,

I would like to transform a character vector into a "binary" vector
("keine" and " " become 0 and the rest 1).

> dput (scm)
c("keine", " ", "keine", "Erstgradverw.", "Mutter", "Erstgradverw.",
"Erstgradverw.", "keine", " ", "Vater", "Erstgradverw.", "keine",
"keine", "keine", "keine", " ", "Erstgradverw.", "keine", "keine",
"Erstgradverw.")

I tried:

scoref <- sapply (scm, function (x) ifelse (x == "keine"|x==" ", 0, 1))

or

scoref <- sapply (scm, function (x) ifelse (x == "keine"|x==" ", x <- 0, x
<- 1))

And this is the output:

> scoref
        keine                       keine Erstgradverw.        Mutter
            0             0             0             1             1
Erstgradverw. Erstgradverw.         keine                       Vater
            1             1             0             0             1
Erstgradverw.         keine         keine         keine         keine
            1             0             0             0             0
              Erstgradverw.         keine         keine Erstgradverw.
            0             1             0             0             1

How do I get rid off the text. Is there an alternative method?

Thanks Hermann

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