Bioequivalence and Bioavailability Forum

Hi Öberster Größter Meister!

❝ I agree ifelse(a,b,c) is a borderline silly function.

Disagree. Very handy function if vectorized if is needed. Used it myself heavily in my codes for simulations.

❝ Like you I'd much prefer the classical if else construct.

Typical for coders coming from C, Fortran or so relying mostly on for loops and without vector constructs .
Will not work in R if you have vectors to compare. See "R Inferno" Circle 3.2, link in my post to Helmut.

❝ I think this also goes to show that error messages should be user-friendly.

Full ACK. Here R is as obscure or even more obscure as other languages. See here.