Rolf Turner wrote: > > The issue worrying Wacek was presumably the fact that > the original poster was treating the ``B'' variable as > being character, rather than numeric. > > So (presumably) what he *really* wanted to say was > (something like) > > ifelse(B%in%as.character(0:9),"A","B")
yepp. > > Of course this is sheer pedantry. thanks, you're so reliable. > I'm sure the original poster > was really concerned with a numeric variable and used the quote > marks around the digits out of confusion over what was required. > (Some misguided subconscious notion to the effect that to get character > output you need character input.) in any case, the version you propose should do the job. vQ ______________________________________________ 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.