Hi > > Re: [R] pulling out 1 country and 1 wave > > Well I don't think I have gotten Norway out. That is my problem. >
Where is Norway? I do not have Norway in my simulated data. If you really want some help you need to provide > > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. Failing to do that means that you actually do not want any help. What you presented is not reproducible and you did not follow any suggestion I made. > I am sorry if I have confused you; I am quite confused myself which is not I am not confused at all. At my side everything works as expected. Regards Petr > typical of me. > > ~Nicole > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Petr PIKAL" <[email protected]> > To: "Nicole Marie Ford" <[email protected]> > Cc: "r-help" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 1:21:20 AM > Subject: Re: [R] pulling out 1 country and 1 wave > > Hi > > > Petr, > > > > > > > wvs.a[,362] > > > > > > ### wvs.a this is data set. > > > > ###,362 is location of year of wave. > > > > > table(wvs.a[,362]) > > > > > norway <- wvs.a[which(wvs.a[,362] == "2005"), ] > > > > ### i am renaming dataset 'norway' > > > > ### the year of the wave in question is '2005.' > > > > > dim(norway) > > > > thanks, nicole. =)) > > > > does this help you help me, any?? > > Not a tiny bit. > > Let me generate the data, which as I am aware only you have for the time > being > > mm<-matrix(sample(2000:2010, 3700, replace=T), 10,370) > dim(mm) > [1] 10 370 > wvs.a <- as.data.frame(mm) > wvs.a[,362] > [1] 2000 2006 2002 2007 2000 2001 2009 2003 2004 2002 > table(wvs.a[,362]) > > 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2009 > 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 > norway <- wvs.a[which(wvs.a[,362] == "2005"), ] > dim(norway) > [1] 0 370 > > So everything works. I do not see any problem, do you? > > Regards > Petr > > > > > from here i need to pull out the country 'norway' which is in the > dataset > > as variable 'v218'..... > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Petr PIKAL" <[email protected]> > > To: "Nicole Marie Ford" <[email protected]> > > Cc: "r-help" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 11:49:39 PM > > Subject: Re: [R] pulling out 1 country and 1 wave > > > > Hi > > > > > wvs.a[,362] > > Error: object 'wvs.a' not found > > > table(wvs.a[,362]) > > Error in table(wvs.a[, 362]) : object 'wvs.a' not found > > > norway <- wvs.a[which(wvs.a[,362] == "2005"), ] > > Error: object 'wvs.a' not found > > > dim(norway) > > Error: object 'norway' not found > > > > > > > I get errors with all your commands and have no idea how to fix them > > without data. There is almost no clue how your data look like so I can > not > > simulate them myself. As there is nothing we can try to operate on, you > > probably does not get many answers. > > > > Please provide at least structure of your data > > > > str(wvs.a) > > > > if not some part of it preferably by using > > > > ?dput. > > > > Regards > > Petr > > > > > > > I have done the following to pull out the wave but now need to pull > out > > > the country form there... but I am not sure how to do that without > > messing it up? > > > > > > wvs.a[,362] > > > table(wvs.a[,362]) > > > norway <- wvs.a[which(wvs.a[,362] == "2005"), ] > > > dim(norway) > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Nicole Marie Ford" <[email protected]> > > > To: "r-help" <[email protected]> > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 11:08:43 PM > > > Subject: [R] pulling out 1 country and 1 wave > > > > > > Hello. > > > > > > I am trying to pull out one country from a time series of 5 waves. For > > > > example I need Norway from the 5th wave. This is new to me. > Typically, > > I > > > work with country specific surveys. > > > > > > > > > data = norway > > > > > > I have attached a .tiff of the codebook showing the variable names for > > > > Norway and the wave. They appear to be Norway = v218 and wave = v15. > > But > > > perhaps I am wrong and this is part of the problem. > > > > > > Below are examples of things I have tried. > > > > > > For the record, no this is not at all HW, this is for my own research. > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > ~Nicole. > > > > > > wvs.a[,v218] > > > table(wvs.a[,v218]) > > > norway <- wvs.a[which(wvs.a[,v218] == "norway"), ] > > > dim(norway) > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > [email protected] 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. > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > [email protected] 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. > ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
