Hi Paul, Here's a way that creates new vectors as elements of a list.
Beth <- list( CLASS = c(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 1 ) ) classes <- unique(Beth$CLASS) # Loop over `classes` to operate on a single `class` in each iteration result <- lapply(classes, function(class) { # Create a vector with 1 if Beth$CLASS is in class, 0 if not as.numeric(Beth$CLASS == class) }) names(result) <- paste0("CLASS", classes) with the result: > result $CLASS1 [1] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 [83] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 $CLASS2 [1] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 [83] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 [list truncated ...] Regards, Jeff On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM Paul Zachos <p...@acase.org> wrote: > > Dear Colleagues, > > I have a vector which indicates membership of subjects in one of 5 Classes > > Beth$CLASS > [1] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 > [37] 2 2 2 2 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 > [73] 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 1 > > For purposes of an analysis (using linear models based on Ward and Jennings) > I would like to create 5 new vectors > > The values in vector CLASS1 will be ‘1’ if the corresponding value in > Beth$CLASS is equal to ‘1’; ‘0’ otherwise > > The values in vector CLASS2 will be ‘1’ if the corresponding value in > Beth$CLASS is equal to ‘2’; ‘0’ otherwise > > The values in vector CLASS4 will be ‘1’ if the corresponding value in > Beth$CLASS is equal to ‘4’; ‘0’ otherwise > > The values in vector CLASS7 will be ‘1’ if the corresponding value in > Beth$CLASS is equal to ‘7’; ‘0’ otherwise > > The values in vector CLASS9 will be ‘1’ if the corresponding value in > Beth$CLASS is equal to ‘9’; ‘0’ otherwise > > How would I go about this using R > > Thank you > _________________ > Paul Zachos, PhD > Director, Research and Evaluation > Association for the Cooperative Advancement of Science and Education (ACASE) > 110 Spring Street Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 | > p...@acase.org | www.acase.org > > > > > > [[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 https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ 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 https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.