Hi
>
> Re: [R] pulling out 1 country and 1 wave
>
> Well I don't think I have gotten Norway out. That is my problem.
>
Where is Norway? I do not have Norway in my simulated data. If you really
want some help you need to provide
> > > PLEASE do read the posting guide
> > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible
code.
Failing to do that means that you actually do not want any help. What you
presented is not reproducible and you did not follow any suggestion I
made.
> I am sorry if I have confused you; I am quite confused myself which is
not
I am not confused at all. At my side everything works as expected.
Regards
Petr
> typical of me.
>
> ~Nicole
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Petr PIKAL" <petr.pikal at precheza.cz>
> To: "Nicole Marie Ford" <nmford at uwm.edu>
> Cc: "r-help" <r-help at r-project.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 1:21:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [R] pulling out 1 country and 1 wave
>
> Hi
>
> > Petr,
> >
> >
> > > wvs.a[,362]
> >
> >
> > ### wvs.a this is data set.
> >
> > ###,362 is location of year of wave.
> >
> > > table(wvs.a[,362])
> >
> > > norway <- wvs.a[which(wvs.a[,362] == "2005"), ]
> >
> > ### i am renaming dataset 'norway'
> >
> > ### the year of the wave in question is '2005.'
> >
> > > dim(norway)
> >
> > thanks, nicole. =))
> >
> > does this help you help me, any??
>
> Not a tiny bit.
>
> Let me generate the data, which as I am aware only you have for the time
> being
>
> mm<-matrix(sample(2000:2010, 3700, replace=T), 10,370)
> dim(mm)
> [1] 10 370
> wvs.a <- as.data.frame(mm)
> wvs.a[,362]
> [1] 2000 2006 2002 2007 2000 2001 2009 2003 2004 2002
> table(wvs.a[,362])
>
> 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2009
> 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1
> norway <- wvs.a[which(wvs.a[,362] == "2005"), ]
> dim(norway)
> [1] 0 370
>
> So everything works. I do not see any problem, do you?
>
> Regards
> Petr
>
> >
> > from here i need to pull out the country 'norway' which is in
the
> dataset
> > as variable 'v218'.....
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Petr PIKAL" <petr.pikal at precheza.cz>
> > To: "Nicole Marie Ford" <nmford at uwm.edu>
> > Cc: "r-help" <r-help at r-project.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 11:49:39 PM
> > Subject: Re: [R] pulling out 1 country and 1 wave
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > > wvs.a[,362]
> > Error: object 'wvs.a' not found
> > > table(wvs.a[,362])
> > Error in table(wvs.a[, 362]) : object 'wvs.a' not found
> > > norway <- wvs.a[which(wvs.a[,362] == "2005"), ]
> > Error: object 'wvs.a' not found
> > > dim(norway)
> > Error: object 'norway' not found
> > >
> >
> > I get errors with all your commands and have no idea how to fix them
> > without data. There is almost no clue how your data look like so I can
> not
> > simulate them myself. As there is nothing we can try to operate on,
you > > probably does not get many answers.
> >
> > Please provide at least structure of your data
> >
> > str(wvs.a)
> >
> > if not some part of it preferably by using
> >
> > ?dput.
> >
> > Regards
> > Petr
> >
> >
> > > I have done the following to pull out the wave but now need to
pull
> out
> > > the country form there... but I am not sure how to do that
without
> > messing it up?
> > >
> > > wvs.a[,362]
> > > table(wvs.a[,362])
> > > norway <- wvs.a[which(wvs.a[,362] == "2005"), ]
> > > dim(norway)
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Nicole Marie Ford" <nmford at uwm.edu>
> > > To: "r-help" <r-help at r-project.org>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 11:08:43 PM
> > > Subject: [R] pulling out 1 country and 1 wave
> > >
> > > Hello.
> > >
> > > I am trying to pull out one country from a time series of 5
waves.
For >
> > > example I need Norway from the 5th wave. This is new to me.
> Typically,
> > I
> > > work with country specific surveys.
> > >
> > >
> > > data = norway
> > >
> > > I have attached a .tiff of the codebook showing the variable
names
for >
> > > Norway and the wave. They appear to be Norway = v218 and wave =
v15. > > But
> > > perhaps I am wrong and this is part of the problem.
> > >
> > > Below are examples of things I have tried.
> > >
> > > For the record, no this is not at all HW, this is for my own
research.> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > ~Nicole.
> > >
> > > wvs.a[,v218]
> > > table(wvs.a[,v218])
> > > norway <- wvs.a[which(wvs.a[,v218] == "norway"), ]
> > > dim(norway)
> > >
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