Le samedi 15 septembre 2012 à 23:36 +0300, Niklas Fischer a écrit : > Dear R users, > > I have a reproducible data and try to create new variable "clo" is 1 if > know variable is equal to "very well" or "fairly well" and getalong is 4 or > 5 > otherwise it is 0. > > rep_data<- read.table(header=TRUE, text=" > id1 id2 know getalong > 100000016_a1 100000016_a2 very well 4 > 100000035_a1 100000035_a2 fairly well NA > 100000036_a1 100000036_a2 very well 3 > 100000039_a1 100000039_a2 very well 5 > 100000067_a1 100000067_a2 very well 5 > 100000076_a1 100000076_a2 fairly well 5 > ") > > > rep_data$clo<- ifelse((rep_data$know==c("fairly well","very well") & > rep_data$getalong==c(4,5)),1,0) > > For sure, something must be wrong, I couldn't find it out. Try: rep_data$clo <- ifelse(rep_data$know %in% c("fairly well", "very well") & rep_data$getalong %in% c(4, 5), 1, 0)
(Not checked, because your data is not parsed correclty by read.table because of the spaces in the levels. Please use dput() instead.) My two cents ______________________________________________ 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.