Case Statement Equivalent in R

case_when(), which was added to dplyr in May 2016, solves this problem in a manner similar to memisc::cases().

As of dplyr 0.7.0, for example:

mtcars %>% 
  mutate(category = case_when(
    cyl == 4 & disp < median(disp) ~ "4 cylinders, small displacement",
    cyl == 8 & disp > median(disp) ~ "8 cylinders, large displacement",
    TRUE ~ "other"
  )
)

Original answer

library(dplyr)
mtcars %>% 
  mutate(category = case_when(
    .$cyl == 4 & .$disp < median(.$disp) ~ "4 cylinders, small displacement",
    .$cyl == 8 & .$disp > median(.$disp) ~ "8 cylinders, large displacement",
    TRUE ~ "other"
  )
)