Hi guys, I was wondering if any one is able to help me on a problem that I was stuck with for a long time. It involves the replacement of character strings with numbers. The character string can take on only 3 possible values, for instance:
AA AT TT I would want R to replace AT with 0. Between AA and TT, I want to compare the frequency of either value, and then for the one which occurs more, I want it to be replaced with 1, and the other with -1. So using the same example, say, I have AA - 50 AT-34 TT- 57 I would want R to substitute it in this way: AA= -1 AT=0 TT = 1 The strings are not necessarily AA,AT, or TT. Any ideas? Thanks! Jeremy [[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.