Re: [R] problem with 'which' and strings

2009-02-11 Thread Chrischizinski
All it took was using 'match' instead of 'which'. Thanks for all your help! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/problem-with-%27which%27-and-strings-tp21955970p21958266.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __

Re: [R] problem with 'which' and strings

2009-02-11 Thread jim holtman
You probably want to use either '%in%' or 'match'. The result of 14 that you are getting is due to recycling of the shorter vector and matching at the 14th position ("Insect-Tolerant"). On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Chrischizinski wrote: > > I have written a function that goes through a datab

Re: [R] problem with 'which' and strings

2009-02-11 Thread Chrischizinski
That would allocate, the vector down the column, correct? I should have specified this clearer. I want to put each metric value into the appropriate column (as designated by the metric name ) in a single row. My data set SCORES.combined has the column headings for all potential metrics that can

Re: [R] problem with 'which' and strings

2009-02-11 Thread David Winsemius
Looks like you might be using vector addressing on a non-existent object. You have identified a column number, 14, to use. If you wanted to put the XXX.table$Metric.name vector into a column of orig.metric.scores (and it already existed with 10 rows), then you would would use matrix sty

[R] problem with 'which' and strings

2009-02-11 Thread Chrischizinski
I have written a function that goes through a database and calculates various metric scores and allocates them to a data set. For 400 of the 500 sites that I calculate these metrics for works fine and allocates the scores into the appropriate column. For some reason, some sites I run into the be