[R] Splitting variables

[jim holtman]

y <- x[x<600]
z <- x[x>=600]

2009/3/16 Rickard Grönholm <gronholm.richard at gmail.com>:
> Dear R Users,I have a data set with several variables. One of these
> variables is the number of farms per county and I'd like to split this
> variable into two domains: (a) counties with fewer than 600 farms and (b)
> counties with 600 or more farms
> I've tried solving this problem for hours, but I'm new at R so I'm not
> getting there.
> if (x < 600) y <- x else z <- x
> didn't do it. All I accomplished was copying everything to z since the first
> county in my data set has 700+ farms
>
> Richard
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