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Re: How to Do a Replacement with Two Conditions

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Hi Murray,

Good stuff!  I should have thought of Boole.  I'm surprised too that 
Greater is not listable.

Thanks,

Gregory


On Fri, Jun 17, 2011, at 9:48 AM, Murray Eisenberg wrote:

> I was with you until you said "to create a dummy variable". If you 
just want to replace numbers > 180 with 1 and those <= 180 with 0, 
then Boole will do the trick:
>
>   myList = Append[RandomInteger[{0, 360}, 10], 180]
> {235, 189, 23, 169, 229, 93, 14, 284, 251, 290, 180}
>
>   Boole[ Thread[myList > 180] ]
> {1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0}
>
> The Thread is needed because > (Greater) is not Listable -- somewhat 
surprisingly to me.
>
>
> On 6/17/2011 12:07 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I have a list of integers and I want to replace numbers bigger than 
180 with one and those less than or equal to 180 with 0 to create a 
dummy variable.  The ones are easy:
>>
>> 	myList /. x_ /; x>  180 ->  1
>>
>> How do I get the zeros in there?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Gregory
>>
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Re: How to Do a Replacement with Two Conditions Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny@videotron.ca> - 2011-06-18 21:44 +0000

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