Hi,

Try

ifelse(initial < 5, initial, 0)
ifelse(initial >= 5, initial, 0)

and take a look at ?ifelse

HTH,
Jorge


On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 9:02 PM, andrewjt <> wrote:

> This is what I am starting with:
>
> initial<- matrix(c(1,5,4,8,4,4,8,6,4,2,7,5,4,5,3,2,4,6), nrow=6,
> ncol=3,dimnames=list(c("1900","1901","1902","1903","1904","1905"),
> c("sample1","sample2","sample3")))
>
> And I need to apply a filter (in this case, any value <5) to give me one
> dataframe with only the 'less than 5' values and with '0' place holders on
> the values that don't meet this criteria. The second dataframe is the same
> but for those values >=5.
>
> Should look like this:
> less <- matrix(c(1,0,4,0,4,4,0,0,4,2,0,0,4,0,3,2,4,0), nrow=6,
> ncol=3,dimnames=list(c("1900","1901","1902","1903","1904","1905"),
> c("sample1","sample2","sample3")))
> more <- matrix(c(0,5,0,8,0,0,8,6,0,0,7,5,0,5,0,0,0,6), nrow=6,
> ncol=3,dimnames=list(c("1900","1901","1902","1903","1904","1905"),
> c("sample1","sample2","sample3")))
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
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