Oh, right. Now I see. Thanks for your help. Dominik
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:33:43 +0200, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > On 09.06.2011 14:31, Dominik P.H. Kalisch wrote: >> Hi Uwe, >> >> thanks for your help. I didn't know that function (mea culpa)... >> With merge() it works what I want to do. >> But I'm still interessted, for a learning purpose, why the loop didn't >> work. So here are the str() results: >> >>> str(cluster) >> int [1:18, 1:2] 12051000 12052000 12053000 12054000 12060000 12061000 >> 12062000 12063000 12064000 12065000 ... >> - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2 >> ..$ : chr [1:18] "1" "2" "3" "4" ... >> ..$ : chr [1:2] "Kreis" "Cluster" >> >>> str(KreisSA) >> num [1:2302, 1:2] 12069000 12072000 12067000 12060000 12070000 ... >> - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2 >> ..$ : NULL >> ..$ : chr [1:2] "Kreis" "Cluster" > > > So KreisSA is a 2 column matrix rather than a vector. Hence you also > get 2 column matrix (logical) from the comparison KreisSA == > cluster[i,1] and so you are assigning into KreisSAa. > > Uwe Ligges > > > >> Thanks for your help. >> >> >> On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:49:04 +0200, Uwe Ligges >> <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote: >>> On 07.06.2011 16:24, Dominik P.H. Kalisch wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I have two matrices of the following form: >>>> >>>> cluster (n=18): >>>> 12062 1 >>>> 12063 2 >>>> 12064 2 >>>> 12065 3 >>>> 12066 5 >>>> >>>> KreisSA (n=2304) >>>> 12062 >>>> 12062 >>>> 12067 >>>> 12065 >>>> 12063 >>>> 12067 >>>> >>>> I try to assign the cluster[,2] to KreisSAa by the follwoing loop: >>>> >>>> n<- nrow(cluster) >>>> KreisSAa<- numeric() >>>> >>>> for(i in 1:n){ >>>> KreisSAa[KreisSA == cluster[i,1]]<- cluster[i,2] >>>> } >>>> >>>> The result is a vector of the length n=4608 where after the entry 2304 >>>> are just NA's >>>> Has someone an idea what I do wrong? >>> >>> Since we do not know the structure of your objects, we cannot say >>> easily. You may want to provide >>> >>> str(cluster) >>> and >>> str(KreisSA) >>> >>> Anyway: I'd just use merge() >>> >>> Uwe Ligges >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> Thanks for your help. >>>> Dominik >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> 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. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. ______________________________________________ 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.