Re: [R] Help needed on "switch" function

2010-06-09 Thread Joris Meys
PS : use a single = instead of a double. It's an assignment you do, not a comparison. Cheers Joris On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Joris Meys wrote: > R is confused about the type in the switch, reads it as numeric > instead of a character. Try : >              temp1.name <- switch(temp1, >      

Re: [R] Help needed on "switch" function

2010-06-09 Thread Joris Meys
R is confused about the type in the switch, reads it as numeric instead of a character. Try : temp1.name <- switch(temp1, "1" = "aa", "2" = "bb", "3" = "cc",

[R] Help needed on "switch" function

2010-06-09 Thread Megh Dal
Hi all, Here I am trying to implement the switch() function to choose value of a variable depending on the value of an input variable :   temp1 <- "1"   temp1.name <- switch(temp1,   1 == "aa",   2 == "bb",