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if else elseif for data frames

Hi,
Try this:
dat1<-data.frame(col1=c(rep("high",3),rep("Neutral",3),rep("low",4)))
?dat1$col2<-ifelse(dat1$col1=="high",dat1$col2<-"H",ifelse(dat1$col1=="Neutral",dat1$col2<-"N","L"))
dat1
????? col1 col2
1???? high??? H
2???? high??? H
3???? high??? H
4? Neutral??? N
5? Neutral??? N
6? Neutral??? N
7????? low??? L
8????? low??? L
9????? low??? L
10???? low??? L

A.K.




----- Original Message -----
From: Sachinthaka Abeywardana <sachin.abeywardana at gmail.com>
To: r-help at r-project.org
Cc: 
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2012 8:43 PM
Subject: [R] if else elseif for data frames

Hi all,

It seems like I cannot use normal 'if' for data frames. What would be the
best way to do the following.

if data$col1='high'
? ? data$col2='H'
else if data$col1='Neutral'
? ? data$col2='N'
else if data$col='low'
?  data$col2='L'
else
?  #chuch a warning?


Note that col2 was not an existing column and was newly assigned for this
task.

Thanks,
Sachin

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