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st: Loop to determine values of a variable based on values of variables
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Rainer zu Fall <[email protected]>
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st: Loop to determine values of a variable based on values of variables
Date
Sat, 17 Aug 2013 18:21:13 +0200
The observations in my data are grid-years. A grid is a roughly
quadratic spatial unit. I have a variable denoting whether or not a
conflict is going on in a grid. However, I want to know whether
conflicts are going on in nearby grids, too.
I can identify nearby grids by their values on the variables "row" and
"column"- any grid with values deviating from the values of my grid of
interest no more than one unit on both variables are adjacent.
My aim would be to create a dummy variable adjacentconflict=1 if
conflict==1 in any of the adjacent grids.
I reckon I have to write a loop to do this. I have tried around a bit,
but seem to be at a loss.
Thank you in advance.
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