Assuming your data are in a data frame, make anorher data frame with the type and type2 columns and merge it with your original data frame.
?merge --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On September 14, 2015 10:35:38 AM PDT, jpm miao <miao...@gmail.com> wrote: >My code is: > > > >if(type=="none") > > type2<-"nc" > >if(type=="drift") > > type2<-"c" > >if(type=="trend") > > type2<-"ct" > > >I am wondering if there's a concise way to write a mapping from type to >type2, especially when the number of categories is high. Thanks! > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.