That's not the ifelse() that's the for loop returning NULL (everything's a function!). If you put the assignment inside you'll get expected behavior.
x <- (for(i in 1:5) i) # Strange for(i in 1:5) x<- i # Normal (but notice you only get the last value because previous ones are overwritten) Michael On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 4:26 PM, phillip03 <phillipbrig...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi > >> EMU1993<-(for (i in 1:nrow(data)){ > + ifelse(year==1992,sum(avgflowEMU),0) > + }) > >>EMU1993 > NULL > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Assignment-problems-tp4578672p4581590.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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.