Create separate object and assign its values to rows

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Hello everyone,
This is my first query here,

I have a dataframe of 1000 obs. I want to create a separate object with character values to assign "male" for the first 500 obs and "female" for the other 500.

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Welcome to the community!

You can create a object of length 1000 with first 500 as male and n
last 500 as female easily as follows:

object_name <- rep(x = c("male", "female"), each = 500)

Hope this helps.

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Thanks mate!
out of curiosity, what if I want to assign "male" for the first 633 and "female" for the rest?

Best regards :slight_smile:

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You're welcome.

I can help with you curiosity alright, but shouldn’t you have tried it out by yourself first? That'd have been more fun and helpful for you I believe.

Use the times argument like this:

object_name <- rep(x = c("male", "female"), times = c(633, (1000 - 633)))
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Many thanks, I am new to R and promise will try harder :smile:

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