[R] [FORGED] if and

[Val]

Thank you  Rolf and Bert!

I found the problem and this

if(country="USA" & year-month = "FEB2015" | "FEB2012" ){
        has be changed  to  this
if(country="USA" & year-month == "FEB2015" | year-month == "FEB2012" ){

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 8:45 PM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I note that you have "Year-month" (capital 'Y') and "year-month" in
> your code; case matters in R.
>
> Otherwise, Rolf's advice applies.
>
> Cheers,
> Bert
>
> Bert Gunter
>
> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
> and sticking things into it."
> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 6:16 PM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz>
> wrote:
> > On 28/02/17 14:47, Val wrote:
> >>
> >> Currently I have  about  six or more  scripts that do the same job.  I
> >> thought it might be possible and more efficient to use one script by
> using
> >> IF ELSE statements. Here is an example but this will be expandable for
> >> several countries ans year-months
> >>
> >>
> >> Year-month = FEB2015, FEB2012,  Feb2010
> >>  country  = USA, CAN.MEX
> >> First I want to do if country = USA and year-month = FEB2015, FEB2012 do
> >> the statements
> >> second if country = CAN and year-month =Feb2010 do  the statements
> >>
> >>
> >> if(country="USA" & year-month = "FEB2015" | "FEB2012" ){
> >> statemnt1
> >> .
> >> statemnt10
> >>
> >> } else if (country="USA" & year-month ="FEB2015") {
> >> statemnt1
> >> .
> >> statemnt10
> >> }
> >>
> >> else
> >> {
> >> statemnt1
> >> .
> >> statemnt10
> >> }
> >>
> >> The above script did not work. is there a different ways of doing it?
> >
> >
> > Uh, yes.  Get the syntax right.  Use R, when you are using R.
> >
> > Looking at ?Syntax and ?Logic might help you a bit.
> >
> > Other than that, there's not much that one can say without seeing a
> > reproducible example.  And if you sat down and wrote out a *reproducible
> > example*, using correct R syntax, you probably wouldn't need any
> assistance
> > from R-help.
> >
> > Have you read any of the readily available R tutorials?  If not do so. If
> > so, read them again and actually take note of what they say!
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Rolf Turner
> >
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