[R] Automatic routine - help

[Uwe Ligges]

Monica Palaseanu-Lovejoy wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I would like to write a little automatic routine in R, but i am a too 
> much of a beginner for that. I will appreciate any help regarding this 
> particular problem.
> 
> Let’s suppose I have a data.frame with j columns (from 1 to n) and i 
> rows (from 1 to p). I would like to write a procedure which reads 
> every column j (j from 1 to n) and compare each value with the 
> interval [0,1]. If z(i,j) is less than 0, then replace z(i,j) with 0. If z(i,j) 
> is greater than 1, then replace z(i,j) with 1. If z(i,j) is inside the 
> interval [0,1] then don’t change. In the end I would like to have a 
> new data.frame with the new values. 
> 
> I am not sure how complicated or long such a procedure might be, 
> so I will be very grateful for any help.
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> 
> Monica


If all columns of your data.frame are numeric:

z[z<0] <- 0
z[z>1] <- 1

Uwe Ligges