I know the following may sound too basic but I thought the mailing list is for the benefit of all levels of people. I ran a simple if statement on two numeric vectors (news1o and s2o) which are of equal length. I have done an str on both of them for your kind perusal below. I am trying to compare the numbers in both and initiate a new vector s as 1 or 0 depending on if the elements in the arrays are greater or lesser than each other. When I do a simple s=(news1o>s2o) I get the values of S as a string of TRUEs and FALSEs but when I try to override using the if statements this cribs. I get only one element in s and that is a puzzle. Any ideas on this please? Many thanks.
if(news1o>s2o)(s<-1) else + (s<--1) [1] -1 Warning message: In if (news1o > s2o) (s <- 1) else (s <- -1) : the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used > s [1] -1 > length(s) [1] 1 str(news1o) num [1:3588] 891 890 890 888 886 ... > str(s2o) num [1:3588] 895 892 890 888 885 ... -- 'Raghu' [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.