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Please read the Posting Guide and particular post using plain text format, a strong in your email program. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On January 22, 2015 8:01:25 AM PST, Charles Stangor <cstan...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi, > >Is there a way to easily convert the list of course terms into >sequential >integers in the dataframe (see code below)? > >eg. "199801" = 1; "199808"=2 > >I know I can use recode but shouldn't "which" work? > >Thanks in advance! > > >sc = data.frame(c("200208", "200701", "201201")) >names(sc) = c("TERM") > >TermList = c(NA, "199801", "199808", "199901", "199908", "200001", >"200008", "200101", "200108", > "200201", "200208", "200301", "200308", "200401", "200408", >"200501", "200508", > "200601", "200608", "200701", "200708", "200801", "200808", >"200901", "200908", > "201001", "201008", "201101", "201108", "201201", "201308", >"201401", "201408") > >which(TermList==sc$TERM) > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.