Dear R,
I am writing a simple function to extract the sign of values and apply it
to a data frame (see below). Whatever I do I get error-messages... What is
wrong?
Thanking you in advance,
Cheers, Georg.
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Georg Ehret
Institute of Genetic Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
> extractsign<-function(x){
+ if (x<0) a<--1
+ else a<-1
+ return (a)
+ }
> a
meanSBP meanSBP_tttcorr res_asb_SBP res_asb_SBP_tttcorr meanDBP
meanDBP_tttcorr res_asb_DBP res_asb_DBP_tttcorr
one -0.04 -0.01 -0.11 -0.05
0.18
0.24 0.18 0.24
two 0.06 0.01 0.33 0.24
0.00
-0.02 0.05 0.03
three -0.01 0.01 -0.07 -0.01
-0.01
0.00 -0.05 -0.01
four -0.14 -0.05 -0.05 0.00
-0.85
-0.59 -0.79 -0.55
five 0.12 0.06 0.17 0.07
0.34
0.21 0.60 0.44
six -0.06 -0.01 -0.05 -0.01
-0.26
-0.14 -0.41 -0.25
> lapply(a,extractsign)
$meanSBP
[1] -1
$meanSBP_tttcorr
[1] -1
$res_asb_SBP
[1] -1
$res_asb_SBP_tttcorr
[1] -1
$meanDBP
[1] 1
$meanDBP_tttcorr
[1] 1
$res_asb_DBP
[1] 1
$res_asb_DBP_tttcorr
[1] 1
Warning messages:
1: In if (x < 0) a <- -1 else a <- 1 :
the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used
2: In if (x < 0) a <- -1 else a <- 1 :
the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used
3: In if (x < 0) a <- -1 else a <- 1 :
the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used
4: In if (x < 0) a <- -1 else a <- 1 :
the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used
5: In if (x < 0) a <- -1 else a <- 1 :
the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used
6: In if (x < 0) a <- -1 else a <- 1 :
the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used
7: In if (x < 0) a <- -1 else a <- 1 :
the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used
8: In if (x < 0) a <- -1 else a <- 1 :
the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used
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