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Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 5:09 PM
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Subject: [R] Converting factors to bounded random numerical data
I have a data set (a) with 3 columns (X,Y,Z). The first 2 columns are
numerical. The third column (Z) is a factor with three levels ("A","B","C").
What I want to do is turn each of the "A's" into different random numbers
between 1 and 4, "B's" into a random number between 5 and 8, etc.
I tried this:
a$Z<-
ifelse(a$Z=="A",sample(1:4,1),ifelse(a$Z=="B",sample(5:9,1),ifelse(a$Z=="C",sample(10:1
2,1),"")
That almost worked but changed all the A's to the same random number. I want
a different random number for each "A". Ideas?
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