[R] Tiny help for tiny function

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

You can do this:

ifelse(XY >= 0.8 | XY <= -0.8 | is.na(XY), XY, "low corr")

On 8/13/08, Birgitle <birgit.lemcke at systbot.uzh.ch> wrote:
>
> I just started to write tiny functions and therefore I appologise in advance
> if I am asking stupid question.
>
> I wrote a tiny function to give me back from the original matrix, a matrix
> showing only the values smaller -0.8 and bigger 0.8.
>
> y<-c(0.1,0.2,0.3,-0.8,-0.4,0.9)
> x<-c(0.5,0.3,0.9,-0.9,-0.7,0.3)
>
>  XY<-rbind(x,y)
>
> extract.values<-function (x)
> {
> if(x>=0.8|x<=-0.8)x
> else("low corr.")
>
>        }
>
> works:
>
> Test<-sapply(XY,extract.values,simplify=FALSE)
>
> but now I try to solve the problem of having NA in the matrix.
> I tried like that:
>
> extract.values<-function (x)
> {
> if(x>=0.8|x<=-0.8|x==NA)x
> else("low corr.")
>
>        }
>
> woks not:
>
> x<-c(0.5,0.3,0.9,-0.9,-0.7,0.3)
> y<-c(0.1,0.2,NA,-0.8,-0.4,0.9)
>
> XY<-rbind(x,y)
>
> Testi<-sapply(XY,extract.values,simplify=FALSE)
>
> Fehler in if (x >= 0.8 | x <= -0.8 | x == NA) x else ("low corr.") :
>  Fehlender Wert, wo TRUE/FALSE nötig ist
>
> Error in if (x >= 0.8 | x <= -0.8 | x == NA) x else ("low corr.") :
>  Missing value, where TRUE/FALSE is needed
>
> How can I do this right.
>
> Thanks for help
>
> B.
>
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