On Oct 17, 2014, at 1:21 PM, Chichi Shu wrote:
> Hi, R listers,
> I¡¯m trying to compare a value of a row in a column to values of previous
> rows in another column in a loop. ¡°i¡± is just from first row to the last
> row. j is an another looping controller indicating the rows that row[i] will
> be compared to and j will be rows before row[i]. I want to compare phone_1[i]
> with phone_2[j] and vise versa.
> for (i in 1: nrow(df)) {
> if (df$Incremental[i] == 1) {mark[i] <- 1}
> else {for (j in (i ¨C df$Incremental[i] + 1) : (i - 1)) {
> if ((df$Phone_1[i] != "" & df$Phone_1[i] == df$Phone_2[j]) |
> (df$Phone_2[i] != "" & df$Phone_2[i] == df$Phone_1[j])) {
> mark[i] <- mark[j]}
> else {mark[i] <- mark[i-1] + 1}
>
> }
> }
> However I¡¯m getting an error with phone_1[i] and phone_2[j], indicating that
> ¡°level sets of factors are different¡±. I¡¯m not sure what I need to do to
> fix it.
Factor fixing. An ancient, aRcane sport.
Perhaps:
lev2 <- unique( c( levels(phone_1), levels(phone_2) ) )
phone_1 <- factor(phone_1, levels=lev2)
phone_2 <- factor(phone_2, levels=lev2)
> Thanks!
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