Hi, Sorry for the newbie question! My code:
x <- 'a' ifelse(x == 'a',y <- 1, y <- 2) print(y) Shouldn't this assign a value of 1? When I execute this I get: > x <- 'a' > ifelse(x == 'a',y <- 1, y <- 2) [1] 1 > print(y) [1] 2 Am I doing something really daft??? thanks! > sessionInfo() R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit) locale: [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] splines parallel stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] Biostrings_2.30.1 XVector_0.2.0 IRanges_1.20.6 ggplot2_0.9.3.1 sda_1.3.2 fdrtool_1.2.11 corpcor_1.6.6 [8] entropy_1.2.0 scatterplot3d_0.3-34 pdist_1.2 hash_2.2.6 DAAG_1.18 multicore_0.1-7 multtest_2.18.0 [15] XML_3.95-0.2 hgu133a.db_2.10.1 affy_1.40.0 genefilter_1.44.0 GOstats_2.28.0 graph_1.40.1 Category_2.28.0 [22] GO.db_2.10.1 venneuler_1.1-0 rJava_0.9-6 colorRamps_2.3 RColorBrewer_1.0-5 sparcl_1.0.3 gap_1.1-10 [29] plotrix_3.5-2 som_0.3-5 pvclust_1.2-2 lsr_0.3.1 compute.es_0.2-2 sm_2.2-5.3 imputation_2.0.1 [36] locfit_1.5-9.1 TimeProjection_0.2.0 Matrix_1.1-1.1 timeDate_3010.98 lubridate_1.3.3 gbm_2.1 lattice_0.20-24 [43] survival_2.37-4 RobustRankAggreg_1.1 impute_1.36.0 reshape_0.8.4 plyr_1.8 zoo_1.7-10 data.table_1.8.10 [50] foreach_1.4.1 foreign_0.8-57 languageR_1.4.1 preprocessCore_1.24.0 gtools_3.1.1 BiocInstaller_1.12.0 org.Hs.eg.db_2.10.1 [57] RSQLite_0.11.4 DBI_0.2-7 AnnotationDbi_1.24.0 Biobase_2.22.0 BiocGenerics_0.8.0 biomaRt_2.18.0 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] affyio_1.30.0 annotate_1.40.0 AnnotationForge_1.4.4 codetools_0.2-8 colorspace_1.2-4 dichromat_2.0-0 digest_0.6.4 [8] grid_3.0.2 GSEABase_1.24.0 gtable_0.1.2 iterators_1.0.6 labeling_0.2 latticeExtra_0.6-26 MASS_7.3-29 [15] munsell_0.4.2 proto_0.3-10 RBGL_1.38.0 RCurl_1.95-4.1 reshape2_1.2.2 scales_0.2.3 stats4_3.0.2 [22] stringr_0.6.2 tools_3.0.2 xtable_1.7-1 zlibbioc_1.8.0 [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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