Re: [R] repeating categorical variable codes

2011-10-05 Thread Petr PIKAL
> > Hi Petr, > > Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately my repetition is not uniform, but > dependent on values given in column B, which varies by each row. > > Does this make it any clearer? Not much. let say > A <- letters[1:10] > B <- sample(1:3, 10, replace =TRUE) > A [1] "a" "b" "c"

[R] repeating categorical variable codes

2011-10-05 Thread Richard Iles
I would appreciate help in knowing how to repeat categorical variable code given in column=A, by the number in a matching column=B. For example, I have a categorical variable code attributed to a household=A and want to replicate the code for all member of the household, as given in column=B. I wou