Here is how you can do the lookup:
> # lookup up the school
> lkup <- read.table(textConnection("1 'BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ES'
465
+ 2 'CALVIN COOLIDGE SCHL' 379
+ 3 'EAST MS' 590
+ 4 'HORACE MANN SCHL' 374
+ 5 'MAC ARTHUR SCHL' 481
+ 6 'THEO ROOSEVELT SCHL' 377"))
>
> # find a match
> lkup[match('HORACE MANN SCHL', lkup[,2]), 3]
[1] 374
>
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Christopher W. Ryan
<cr...@binghamton.edu>wrote:
> One more bit: I got as far as this, thinking it might help:
>
> Using a data file that I know has all the necessary denominators, I created
> a dataframe of school names (as factor) and TotalStudentsEnrolled.
>
> data.frame(data$School[!duplicated(data$School)],
> data$TotalStudentsEnrolled[!duplicated(data$School)])
>
> 1 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ES 465
> 2 CALVIN COOLIDGE SCHL 379
> 3 EAST MS 590
> 4 HORACE MANN SCHL 374
> 5 MAC ARTHUR SCHL 481
> 6 THEO ROOSEVELT SCHL 377
> [truncated]
>
> I thought I might be able to "look up" the necessary value for each school
> from this dataframe. But I can't get my head around using indices to do it.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> --Chris
>
>
> --
> Christopher W. Ryan, MD
> SUNY Upstate Medical University Clinical Campus at Binghamton
> 425 Robinson Street, Binghamton, NY 13904
> cryanatbinghamtondotedu
>
> "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide
> the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and
> endless sea." [Antoine de St. Exupery]
>
> ______________________________________________
> 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<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html>
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
--
Jim Holtman
Cincinnati, OH
+1 513 646 9390
What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
______________________________________________
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.
