As Brian Ripley points out, the problem is that you can't break a quoted string over input lines.
It is nevertheless awkward that you have to provide the recode directives in one long line. I'll think about alternatives for the next version of the car package. One simple possibility would be to allow several strings, so that your example could be entered as
datameta$smpid.r <-recode(datameta$smpid,
"c(101,25,167,45,75)=25",
"c(104,51)=51")It would also be nice to figure out a way to do this without using strings. The recode dialog in my Rcmdr package, which assembles a call to recode(), has a much nicer interface, but it's able to parse the input.
Thanks for the (implicit) suggestion.
John
At 11:52 AM 11/4/2003 +0100, 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 --
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