[R] logical condition in vector operation

[Federico Calboli]

HI All,

I have a data frame such as:

> test
     x y  p  d
[1,] 1 0 10 21 0
[2,] 2 3 11 12 0
[3,] 3 4 12 23 0
[4,] 3 5 13 24 0


and I want to perfor some operations on the first two coulums,
conditional on the uneqaulity values on the 3rd and 4th columns.

For instance:

j = 3
test[test[,1] == j, 5] = test[test[,1] == j,2] + test[test[,2] == j,1]

gives me the result:

test:

     x y  p  d
[1,] 1 0 10 21 0
[2,] 2 3 11 12 0
[3,] 3 4 12 23 6
[4,] 3 5 13 24 7


My probblem is the following: I want to perform the operation
test[test[,1] == j,2] + test[test[,2] == j,1] only if the value of
column p and column d are different at the positions where x or y = j.
In practice, I don't want to perform the first operation because
test[2,4 is 12 and test[1,3] is 12 as well.

I tried an if statement with little success:

if(test[test[,1] == j,3] != test[test[,2] == j,4]){
test[test[,1] == j, 5] = test[test[,1] == j,2] + test[test[,2] == j,1]
}
Warning message:
the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used in:
if (test[test[, 1] == j, 3] != test[test[, 2] == j, 4]) {

Could anyone lend some advice?

Cheers,

Federico
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Federico C. F. Calboli
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
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