I'm not sure we should measure superiority by how well a statement parses into English. If this were true, we would all be programming in COBOL.
Simon. Simon Blomberg, BSc (Hons), PhD, MAppStat. Lecturer and Consultant Statistician School of Biological Sciences The University of Queensland St. Lucia Queensland 4072 Australia T: +61 7 3365 2506 email: S.Blomberg1_at_uq.edu.au http://www.uq.edu.au/~uqsblomb/ Policies: 1. I will NOT analyse your data for you. 2. Your deadline is your problem. The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. - John Tukey. -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org on behalf of Dieter Menne Sent: Tue 23/06/2009 4:43 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] SAS-like method of recoding variables? P.Dalgaard wrote: > > >> IF TYPE='TRUCK' and count=12 THEN VEHICLES=TRUCK+((CAR+BIKE)/2.2); > > vehicles <- ifelse(TYPE=='TRUCK' & count=12, TRUCK+((CAR+BIKE)/2.2), NA) > > Read both versions to an audience, and you will have to admit that this is one of the cases where SAS is superior. Dieter -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/SAS-like-method-of-recoding-variables--tp24152845p24160742.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.
