Hello reid ! About your third explanation, could you please write the
complete code including that option: a loop ?
Forgiveme, I'm trying to learn R and my mind is full of other
statistical program syntax. And I'd like very very much to improve my
knowledge using R and maybe contribute to someone, someday, somehow.
Thanks, again
Mauricio
Huntsinger, Reid escreveu:
>First, "==" is logical comparison, so if you want to create a variable based
>on both "age" and "group" you can do that. However, it looks like you want
>to define the variable "group", so you want to use "<-" or "=" for that.
>
>Second, if you're typing this at a command prompt, you need to make sure you
>tell R you're not finished when it looks like you could be. There are
>several ways to do this. One is to put everything inside braces; another is
>to deliberately leave lines incomplete, like
>
>if (age <= 10) {
> group <- 1
>} else {
> if (age <= 20) {
> group <- 2
> } else group <- 3
>}
>
>Third, this will work for a vector of length 1. If you want to take a vector
>"age" and produce a corresponding vector "group", you'll need to put this in
>a loop, or use "lapply", or some iteration.
>
>Fourth, you can also write the above as
>
>
>
>>group <- if (age <= 10) 1 else if (age <= 20) 2 else 3
>>
>>
>
>that is, if() returns a value you can assign.
>
>Finally, besides "ifelse" you can use "cut" for this particular task.
>
>Reid Huntsinger
>
>
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>
>Hi everyone !
>
>Could you please help me with this problem ?
>
>I´ve trying to write a code that assign to a variable the content from
>another, but all I´ve got is a message error. For example:
>
>if (age <=10) {group == 1}
>else if (age > 10 & age <= 20) {group == 2}
>else {group == 3}
>
>Syntax error
>
>Or
>
>if (age <=10) {group == 1}
>else (age > 10 & age <= 20) {group == 2}
>else {group == 3}
>
>Syntax error
>
>I know that is possible to find the solution by ifelse command or even
>recode command, but I´d like to use this way, because I can add another
>variable as a new condition and I believe to expand the possibilites.
>
>Thanks,
>Mauricio
>
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