Hi, May be this: dat1<-read.table(text=" 2.880556 0.616667 5.083333 0.858333 0.466667 2.936111 4.258333 0.258333 2.033333 2.583333 1.088889 0.447222 1.872222 0.080556 4.033333 4.116667 1.633333 2.147222 ",sep="",header=FALSE) dat1$category<-ifelse(dat1$V1<=1 &dat1$V1>0,1,ifelse(dat1$V1>1 & dat1$V1<=2,2,ifelse(dat1$V1>2&dat1$V1<=3,3,ifelse(dat1$V1>3&dat1$V1<=4,4,ifelse(dat1$V1>4&dat1$V1<=5,5,6)))))
head(dat1) # V1 category #1 2.880556 3 #2 0.616667 1 #3 5.083333 6 #4 0.858333 1 #5 0.466667 1 #6 2.936111 3 A.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: bibek sharma <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 6:52 PM Subject: [R] Defining categories Hello R user, Data below represent year in decimal. I would like to catagorize it in such a way that any valye [0,1] goes to catagory 1 , (1,2] goes to catagory 2 and so on.. Any suggestion how it can be done with if else statement or any other way? 2.880556 0.616667 5.083333 0.858333 0.466667 2.936111 4.258333 0.258333 2.033333 2.583333 1.088889 0.447222 1.872222 0.080556 4.033333 4.116667 1.633333 2.147222 Thank you for your help. Bibek ______________________________________________ [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.
