[R] Simple For Loop Help

[gpetris]

Hi Arun,

This seems to do what you are looking for:

> Y <- matrix(rnorm(12), 4, 3)
> Y
            [,1]       [,2]        [,3]
[1,] -1.0457177  0.7756343 -0.06063478
[2,] -0.8962113  1.5573704 -0.50137832
[3,]  1.2693872 -0.3654018  0.92606273
[4,]  0.5938409  0.8165564  0.03693769
> X <- apply(Y, 1, which.min)
> X
[1] 1 1 2 3

HTH,
Giovanni


Quoting "arun.gurubaramurugeshan" <arun.gurubaramurugeshan at Autozone.com>:

> Hi,
> I need help with the following.
>
> I have a dataset Y with 200 observations and three variables Y1, Y2 & Y3. I
> have to find the minimum of Y1, Y2 & Y3 and if the minimum is Y1 then I have
> to assign 1 to a variable (Y4), if Y2 is the minimum then "2" to Y4  else
> "3" to Y4. This is what I have done....
>
> for (i in 1:200) if(Y1<Y2 & Y1<Y3) Y$Y4=1 else if (Y2<Y3) Y$Y4=2
> else Y$Y4=3
>
> and R is throwing back this warning message
>
> Warning messages:
> 1: In if (Y1 < Y2 & Y1 < Y3) Y4 <- 1 else if (Y2 < Y3) Y4
> <- 2 else Y4 <- 3 :
>   the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used
> 2: In if (Y2 < Y3) Y4 <- 2 else Y4 <- 3 :
>   the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Arun
>
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