[R] creating a new vecotr in a for loop

Charles C. Berry cberry at tajo.ucsd.edu
Wed Nov 26 01:58:39 CET 2008



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as it says on your own email!

What you provide is not reproducible.

HTH,

Chuck



On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, PDXRugger wrote:

>
> I have consulted the intro and nabble but have not found an answer to what
> should be a simple question, here goes:
>
> I am doing a crosscheck of a data frame and pulling out a single value based
> on an inputted value ie based on x i will select y, or if x =2 then my code
> returns 7.
>
> x    y
> 1   4
> 2   7
> 3   10
> 4   2
>
> My code currently iterates through for as many times as the length of the x
> dataframe.  What i would like to do is then is to build a vector for those
> values selected.  so if vector x  = 1,4,7 then "new-y" would equal 4, 2, 3.
>
> x    y
> 1   4
> 2   7
> 3   10
> 4   2
> 5   21
> 6   13
> 7  3
> 8  90
>
> I need to ultimetly re-sort my x vector based on the values of y but the
> function i am using is the subset function and i cant do it without y being
> a vector itself and it is currently only a one value object.
>
> #Creates test Candidates Vector
> Candidates=c(100,101,102,103,104,105)
>
> #Creates object equaling the number of candidate TAZs from the main script
> Location Choice Model
> NumCands1=length(Candidates)
>
> Dev..At=9999999
> 	for(i in 1:NumCands1){
>
> 	#Renames Location Choice Model generated TAZ's object
> 	Loc_Mod_TAZ=Candidates[i]
>
> 	#Converts Development size from main script to Development density function
> format
> 	Dev_Size=Dev..At
>
> 	#This is my "y" value in the example i gave above, this is the value that i
> need put into a           #          vector, a vector that should have as
> many values as there are number of candidates
> 	TAZDetermine_FEET=TAZ_VAC_FEET[TAZ_VAC_FEET$TAZ==Loc_Mod_TAZ,2]
>
> 	#Creates new vector based on adaquate vacancy in the TAZ and the
> development to be located
> 	Newcands=subset(Loc_Mod_TAZ, TAZDetermine_FEET>=Dev_Size)
>
>
> 	}
>
> Thanks for the help
> Cheers,
> JR
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Charles C. Berry                            (858) 534-2098
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