Take a look at ?ifelse Cheers, Michael
On Aug 12, 2012, at 3:12 AM, Dominic Roye <dominic.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. But it isn't possible that each > element of the if-condition is tested for each vector element? > > y <- c(1:20) >> y > [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 > >> if (y == c(4,5,9,11,17)) { print("yes") } else { print("no")} > [1] "no" > warning: > In if (y == c(4, 5, 9, 11, 17)) { : > Condition has length > 1 and only the first element is used >> > > > #It also doesn't work with this condition ==2 > > if (y == 2) { print("yes") } else { print("no")} > [1] "no" > warning: > In if (y == 2) { : > Condition has length> 1 and only the first element is used > > > > I guess it's a trivial problem. I hope someone can help me. > > Thank you! > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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.