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Re: How to Do a Replacement with Two Conditions

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  • Subject: [mg119713] [mg119713] Re: How to Do a Replacement with Two Conditions
  • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
  • Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:55:31 -0400 (EDT)
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  • Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu

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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