I note that you have "Year-month" (capital 'Y') and "year-month" in your code; case matters in R.
Otherwise, Rolf's advice applies. Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 6:16 PM, Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > On 28/02/17 14:47, Val wrote: >> >> Currently I have about six or more scripts that do the same job. I >> thought it might be possible and more efficient to use one script by using >> IF ELSE statements. Here is an example but this will be expandable for >> several countries ans year-months >> >> >> Year-month = FEB2015, FEB2012, Feb2010 >> country = USA, CAN.MEX >> First I want to do if country = USA and year-month = FEB2015, FEB2012 do >> the statements >> second if country = CAN and year-month =Feb2010 do the statements >> >> >> if(country="USA" & year-month = "FEB2015" | "FEB2012" ){ >> statemnt1 >> . >> statemnt10 >> >> } else if (country="USA" & year-month ="FEB2015") { >> statemnt1 >> . >> statemnt10 >> } >> >> else >> { >> statemnt1 >> . >> statemnt10 >> } >> >> The above script did not work. is there a different ways of doing it? > > > Uh, yes. Get the syntax right. Use R, when you are using R. > > Looking at ?Syntax and ?Logic might help you a bit. > > Other than that, there's not much that one can say without seeing a > reproducible example. And if you sat down and wrote out a *reproducible > example*, using correct R syntax, you probably wouldn't need any assistance > from R-help. > > Have you read any of the readily available R tutorials? If not do so. If > so, read them again and actually take note of what they say! > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner > > -- > Technical Editor ANZJS > Department of Statistics > University of Auckland > Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 > > > ______________________________________________ > 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.