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) 

Answer 2

Sorry for joining too late to the party. Here's an easy solution.

#building up your initial table
idnat <- c(1,1,1,2) #1 is french, 2 is foreign

idbp <- c(1,2,3,4) #1 is mainland, 2 is colony, 3 is overseas, 4 is foreign

t <- cbind(idnat, idbp)

#the last column will be a vector of row length = row length of your matrix
idnat2 <- vector()

#.. and we will populate that vector with a cursor

for(i in 1:length(idnat))

     #*check that we selected the cursor to for the length of one of the vectors*

{  

  if (t[i,1] == 2) #*this says: if idnat = foreign, then it's foreign*

    {

      idnat2[i] <- 3 #3 is foreign

    }

  else if (t[i,2] == 1) #*this says: if not foreign and idbp = mainland then it's mainland*

    {

      idnat2[i] <- 2 # 2 is mainland  

    }

  else #*this says: anything else will be classified as colony or overseas*

    {

      idnat2[i] <- 1 # 1 is colony or overseas 

    }

}


cbind(t,idnat2)

Answer 3

You can create the vector idnat2 without if and ifelse.

The function replace can be used to replace all occurrences of "colony" with "overseas":

idnat2 <- replace(idbp, idbp == "colony", "overseas")