dear all, Im a complete R newby with the following question. I have a dataset where my variable values are incorrectly numbered. it has to be something like this Where x is variable name, y=actual value which must become corresponding z-value x3 x4 x5 x3 x4 x5 y1 y3 y4 z1 z3 z4 y2 must become z2 y5 z5 The y and z variables are matched by: x1 x2 y1 z1 y2 z2 y3 z3 y4 z4 y5 z5 Anybody any suggestion? All help is very much appreciated.. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/how-to-replace-all-variable-values-tp3496838p3496838.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
how to replace all variable values?
2 messages · blue100, Dennis Murphy
Hi:
x1 <- 1:5 x2 <- 6:10 x3 <- c(1, 2, 5) x4 <- 3 x5 <- 4 x2[x1 %in% x3]
[1] 6 7 10
x2[x1 %in% x4]
[1] 8
x2[x1 %in% x5]
[1] 9 HTH, Dennis
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:20 PM, blue100 <evastrijbis at hotmail.com> wrote:
dear all, Im a complete R newby with the following question. I have a dataset where my variable values are incorrectly numbered. it has to be something like this Where x is variable name, y=actual value which must become corresponding z-value x3 ? ? ?x4 ? ? ?x5 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?x3 ? ? ?x4 ? ? ?x5 y1 ? ? ?y3 ? ? ?y4 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?z1 ? ? ?z3 ? ? ?z4 y2 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?must become ? ? ? ? ? ? z2 y5 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?z5 The y and z variables are matched by: x1 ? ? ?x2 y1 ? ? ?z1 y2 ? ? ?z2 y3 ? ? ?z3 y4 ? ? ?z4 y5 ? ? ?z5 Anybody any suggestion? All help is very much appreciated.. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/how-to-replace-all-variable-values-tp3496838p3496838.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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