Re: [R] [FORGED] if and

2017-02-27 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Really? That seems unlikely, given that * = is used for moving values, not comparing them, * - is not a legal symbol for a variable name, it is subtraction, and year-month can hardly end up as a character string like "FEB2015" * (possible problem) & and | compare vectors one at a time, so are n

Re: [R] [FORGED] if and

2017-02-27 Thread Val
Thank you Rolf and Bert! I found the problem and this if(country="USA" & year-month = "FEB2015" | "FEB2012" ){ has be changed to this if(country="USA" & year-month == "FEB2015" | year-month == "FEB2012" ){ On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 8:45 PM, Bert Gunter wrote: > I note that you have "Y

Re: [R] [FORGED] if and

2017-02-27 Thread Bert Gunter
I note that you have "Year-month" (capital 'Y') and "year-month" in your code; case matters in R. Otherwise, Rolf's advice applies. Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his

Re: [R] [FORGED] if and

2017-02-27 Thread Rolf Turner
On 28/02/17 14:47, Val wrote: Currently I have about six or more scripts that do the same job. I thought it might be possible and more efficient to use one script by using IF ELSE statements. Here is an example but this will be expandable for several countries ans year-months Year-month = F