[R] changing a range of values

[Patrick Burns]

The R Inferno, page 38.


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Jörg Groß wrote:
> Hi,
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> If I have following vector;
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> x <- c(1,1,1,2,2,3,4,4,5)
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> and I want to change values in the range of 1 to 3 into the value 1, 
> how can I do that?
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> I tried
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> x[x == c(1:3)] <- c(1)
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> but than I get;
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>  x
> [1] 1 1 1 2 1 1 4 4 5
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> R doesn't change the 2 into a 1.
> But why?
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