How to recode a variable into another variable

Question

I am trying to recode the following variable:

str(dades$Edat)
 num [1:30000] 24 26 34 37 57 37 29 23 28 35 ...

Into this:

agrupar.edat<-function(x){
  for (i in 1:length(x)){
    if (x[i]>=21 & x[i]<30) {x[i]<-'1'} else
      if (x[i]>=30 & x[i]<40) {x[i]<-'2'} else
        if (x[i]>=40 & x[i]<50) {x[i]<-'3'} else
          if (x[i]>=50 & x[i]<60) {x[i]<-'4'} else
            if (x[i]>=60 & x[i]<70) {x[i]<-'5'} else
        if (x[i]>=70 & x[i]<80) {x[i]<-'6'} 
  }

So I can put the results here:

edx<-agrupar.edat(dades$Edat)

But something is not working and edx keeps returning me "NULL"

Just use ?cut to do this i.e. cut(dates$Edat, breaks = c(-Inf, -21, 30, 40, 50, 60, 80, Inf), labels = 1:6) — akrun
– akrun, Commented Jan 8, 2017 at 9:07

Fr. · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-08 09:46:06Z

1

Problem 1.

Your function has no return argument.

As a result, it reads that way:

agrupar.edat<-function(x){
  # do stuff
  # good bye
  }

… so logically enough, nothing (NULL) comes out of it.

Try simply adding return(1) at the end, just before the closing bracket, and magic will happen.

Note, however, that your problem does not require a function. It requires…

Problem 2.

… using cut, as @akrun's comment instructs you to do.

answered Jan 8, 2017 at 9:46

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2 Comments

Phil Over a year ago

Do you mean return(x)?

Fr. Over a year ago

Nope, I did mean return(1), to explain the concept. Not letting OP setting this problem up as a function :)

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