Try this way i <- 1 if (i==1) {years <- "Freshmen"} if (i==1) {years <- "Sophomores"}
it should work! Brian Quinif wrote: > I am ashamed to be asking this question, but I couldn't find the > solution anywhere. Searching for "if" and "R" is not very > productive... > > I cannot get a simple if statement to work. > > I have data on college students. I want to make a string variable > that has the names of the years. That is, when the year variable i is > equal to 1, I want to have a variable called years equal to > "Freshmen". > > I tried this > years <- "Freshmen" if i==1 > years <- "Sophomores" if i==2 > > and so on, but I couldn't get it to work. How can I get this variable to > work? > > Thanks, > > BQ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ Ennio D. Isaia ~ Dep. of Statistics & Applied Mathematics, University of Torino ~ Piazza Arbarello, 8 - 10122 Torino (Italy) ~ Phone: +39 011 670 57 29 ~~ Fax: +39 011 670 57 83 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html