Nested ifelse statement

Question

I\'m still learning how to translate a SAS code into R and I get warnings. I need to understand where I\'m making mistakes. What I want to do is create a variable which summ

Answer 1

# Read in the data.

idnat=c("french","french","french","foreign")
idbp=c("mainland","colony","overseas","foreign")

# Initialize the new variable.

idnat2=as.character(vector())

# Logically evaluate "idnat" and "idbp" for each case, assigning the appropriate level to "idnat2".

for(i in 1:length(idnat)) {
  if(idnat[i] == "french" & idbp[i] == "mainland") {
    idnat2[i] = "mainland"
} else if (idnat[i] == "french" & (idbp[i] == "colony" | idbp[i] == "overseas")) {
  idnat2[i] = "overseas"
} else {
  idnat2[i] = "foreign"
} 
}

# Create a data frame with the two old variables and the new variable.

data.frame(idnat,idbp,idnat2)