You really need to provide more information. The error message without the command that generated it and the structure of the data sets you are using is a bare minimum. A reproducible example is often necessary to debug code such as this.
You can simplify your code substantially with something like this > cols <- c("H1", "H2", "H3", "H8") > RS <- rowSums(kdata[, cols]) > kdata$target <- ifelse(RS == length(cols), "all-true", + ifelse(RS == 0, "all-false", "other")) David L. Carlson Department of Anthropology Texas A&M University -----Original Message----- From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Indhira, Anusha Sent: Monday, October 24, 2016 7:06 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] using nested ifelse when i want to process values from more than 3 columns of data frame Got past the syntax error,now I got new error below Error in match.fun(FUN) : c("'ifelse((kmeans.data$HBV51OpenDmd & kmeans.data$HBV52OpenDmd & ' is not a function, character or symbol", "' kmeans.data$HBV53OpenDmd & kmeans.data$HBV8OpenDmd) == 1, ' is not a function, character or symbol", "' \"all-true\", (ifelse((kmeans.data$HBV51OpenDmd == 0 & kmeans.data$HBV52OpenDmd == ' is not a function, character or symbol", "' 0 & kmeans.data$HBV53OpenDmd == 0 & kmeans.data$HBV8OpenDmd == ' is not a function, character or symbol", "' 0), \"all-false\", \"other\")))' is not a function, character or symbol" ) From: Indhira, Anusha Sent: 24 October 2016 12:56 To: 'r-help@r-project.org' Subject: using nested ifelse when i want to process values from more than 3 columns of data frame Hi, I would like to process each row of data frame having 8 columns of which I am interested in 4 columns for my analysis.I tried using apply function but I get syntax error,although I checked for missing syntaxes ,couldn't figure out the mistake.Can you also suggest me more efficient way to perform same action. # creating target column from result kdata$target <- apply(kdata,1,ifelse((kdata$H1 & kdata$H2 & kdata$H3 & kdata$H8) == 1,"all-true",(ifelse(kdata$H1== 0 & kdata$H2 == 0 & kdata$H3 == 0 & kdata$H8 == 0) , "all-false","other"))) Thanks. Alily This e-mail (including attachments) contains contents owned by Rolls-Royce plc and its subsidiaries, affiliated companies or customers and covered by the laws of England and Wales, Brazil, US, or Canada (federal, state or provincial). The information is intended to be confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any retention, dissemination, distribution, interception or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited and may subject you to further legal action. Reply to the sender if you received this email by accident, and then delete the email and any attachments. [[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.