Dear list-members, I have the following problem: I have a vector (countrydiff) with length 72 and another vector (long_df$country_name) which is about 12000 long. Basically what I want to do is to if the factor level (or string name) in long_df$country_name appears on the countrydiff, then long_df$povdat should be equal to 1, if it does not appear on the countrydiff vector then long_df$povdat should be equal to zero. I have tried different combinations and read some. The following code should in my mind do it, but it doesn’t:
long_df$povdat<-ifelse(long_df$country_name == countrydiff, 1, 0) long_df$povdat<-ifelse(long_df$country_name %in% countrydiff, 1, 0) Additional information: the factor vector countrydiff contains unique country names (Albania, Zimbabwe etc.), whereas long_df$country_name also contains country names albeit not unique since it is in longform. The unique names that appear in long_df$country_name is around 200. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Best Adel -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/ifelse-statement-with-two-vectors-of-different-length-tp4682401.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
