[R] [Fwd: Re: simple if statement]

[isaia at econ.unito.it]

Try this way

i <- 1
if (i==1) {years <- "Freshmen"}
if (i==1) {years <- "Sophomores"}

it should work!

Brian Quinif wrote:

> I am ashamed to be asking this question, but I couldn't find the
> solution anywhere.  Searching for "if" and "R" is not very
> productive...
> 
> I cannot get a simple if statement to work.
> 
> I have data on college students.  I want to make a string variable
> that has the names of the years.  That is, when the year variable i is
> equal to 1, I want to have a variable called years equal to
> "Freshmen".
> 
> I tried this
> years <- "Freshmen" if i==1
> years <- "Sophomores" if i==2
> 
> and so on, but I couldn't get it to work.  How can I get this variable to work?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> BQ
> 
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