Dear Andrew, Its working. Thanks a lot.... Yours sincerely, AKSHAY M KULKARNI
________________________________ From: Andrew Simmons <akwsi...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2022 12:08 AM To: akshay kulkarni <akshay...@hotmail.com> Cc: R help Mailing list <r-help@r-project.org> Subject: Re: [R] inconsistency in switch statements..... 1 and 2 are not valid identifiers in R, so you need to surround them with backticks to make them valid, the same as quoting a string: switch(Stst, `1` = print("NO"), `2` = print("YES")) On Wed., Sep. 7, 2022, 14:35 akshay kulkarni, <akshay...@hotmail.com<mailto:akshay...@hotmail.com>> wrote: Dear members, The following is my code: > Stst <- 2 > switch(Stst, 1 = print("NO"), 2 = print("YES")) Error: unexpected '=' in "switch(Stst, 1 =" Why isn't it printing "YES" on to the console? many thanks in advance. Thanking you, Yours sincerely, AKSHAY M KULKARNI [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org<mailto:R-help@r-project.org> mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.