HI, May be: dat1<- read.table(text=" male female transsexuals 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 ",sep="",header=TRUE)
dat1$sex<-colnames(dat1)[apply(dat1,1,function(x) which(x==1))] dat1 # male female transsexuals sex #1 0 1 0 female #2 1 0 0 male #3 0 0 1 transsexuals #4 0 1 0 female #5 1 0 0 male #6 1 0 0 male #7 0 1 0 female A.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: David Studer <stude...@gmail.com> To: Bert Gunter <gunter.ber...@gene.com> Cc: r-help@r-project.org Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 11:22 AM Subject: Re: [R] reduce three columns to one with the colnames OK, seems like nobody understood my question ;-) Let's make another example: I have three variables: data$male and data$female and data$transsexuals All the three of them contain the values 0 and 1. Now I'd like to create another variable data$sex. Now in all cases where data$female==1 the variable data$sex should be set to 'female', all in all cases where data$male==1 the variable data$sex should be set to 'male' and so on... Thank you! David 2013/5/13 Bert Gunter <gunter.ber...@gene.com> > No -- my answer is wrong. I'll leave it to others to correct. Obvious > question to OP: What if more than one of your colors variables > simultaneously have a 1? > > -- Bert > > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Bert Gunter <bgun...@gene.com> wrote: > > Cute answer, Pascal. It may even be the answer to the question the OP > > should have asked, but I don't think it answered the question that was > > asked. That might be: > > > > c("red"[red], "green"[green], "blue"[blue]) > > > > Cheers, > > Bert > > > > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Pascal Oettli <kri...@ymail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> ?rgb > >> > >> HTH > >> Pascal > >> > >> > >> 2013/5/13 David Studer <stude...@gmail.com> > >> > >>> Hello everybody, > >>> > >>> I have three variables "blue", "green" and "red" containing values 0 > (no) > >>> and 1 (yes). > >>> > >>> How can I easily create another variable "colors" with the values > "blue", > >>> "green" and "red"? > >>> > >>> I hope that you can understand my question and appreciate any > solutions or > >>> hints! > >>> > >>> Thank you! > >>> David > >>> > >>> [[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. > >>> > >> > >> [[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. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Bert Gunter > > Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics > > > > Internal Contact Info: > > Phone: 467-7374 > > Website: > > > http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm > > > > -- > > Bert Gunter > Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics > > Internal Contact Info: > Phone: 467-7374 > Website: > > http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm > [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.