[R] how to replace all variable values?

[Dennis Murphy]

Hi:

> x1 <- 1:5
> x2 <- 6:10
> x3 <- c(1, 2, 5)
> x4 <- 3
> x5 <- 4
> x2[x1 %in% x3]
[1]  6  7 10
> x2[x1 %in% x4]
[1] 8
> x2[x1 %in% x5]
[1] 9


HTH,
Dennis

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:20 PM, blue100 <evastrijbis at hotmail.com> wrote:
> dear all,
>
> Im a complete R newby with the following question.
>
> I have a dataset where my variable values are incorrectly numbered. it has
> to be something like this
>
> Where x is variable name, y=actual value which must become corresponding
> z-value
>
> x3      x4      x5                                      x3      x4      x5
> y1      y3      y4                                      z1      z3      z4
> y2                              must become             z2
> y5                                                      z5
>
> The y and z variables are matched by:
>
> x1      x2
> y1      z1
> y2      z2
> y3      z3
> y4      z4
> y5      z5
>
> Anybody any suggestion? All help is very much appreciated..
>
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