[R] reduce three columns to one with the colnames

Bert Gunter gunter.berton at gene.com
Mon May 13 17:13:37 CEST 2013


No -- my answer is wrong. I'll leave it to others to correct. Obvious
question to OP: What if more than one of your colors variables
simultaneously have a 1?

-- Bert

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Bert Gunter <bgunter at gene.com> wrote:
> Cute answer, Pascal. It may even be the answer to the question the OP
> should have asked, but I don't think it answered the question that was
> asked. That might be:
>
> c("red"[red], "green"[green], "blue"[blue])
>
> Cheers,
> Bert
>
> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Pascal Oettli <kridox at ymail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> ?rgb
>>
>> HTH
>> Pascal
>>
>>
>> 2013/5/13 David Studer <studerov at gmail.com>
>>
>>> Hello everybody,
>>>
>>> I have three variables "blue", "green" and "red" containing values 0 (no)
>>> and 1 (yes).
>>>
>>> How can I easily create another variable "colors" with the values "blue",
>>> "green" and "red"?
>>>
>>> I hope that you can understand my question and appreciate any solutions or
>>> hints!
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>> David
>>>
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> Bert Gunter
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