Nothing to do with recode: you cannot have line breaks inside quoted strings.
> "c(101,25,167,45,75)=25; Error: syntax error > c(104,51)=51" Error: syntax error On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Bernd Weiss wrote: > Dear all, > > it seems to be that 'recode' can't handle any line breaks in its code. > > The following command causes no problem: > > datameta$smpid.r <- > recode(datameta$smpid,"c(101,25,167,45,75)=25;c(104,51)=51") > > But if I type ... > > datameta$smpid.r <-recode(datameta$smpid, > "c(101,25,167,45,75)=25; > c(104,51)=51") > > ... the result is a syntax error. > > TIA > > Bernd > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
