[R] modify a data.frame within a function

[Mark Wardle]

You need to read about scope.

Try using return() from within your function to return the modified
data frame to the caller.

Best wishes,

Mark

On 15/12/2007, Yuval Sapir <ysapir at bgu.ac.il> wrote:
>  Hello all,
> I'm trying to modify a single column of a data frame to remove randomly half of the values. I want to do it within a function, but can not assign the modified column back into the data frame. It was easy and successful without a function, so I suspect the problem is the call of the single column within the function.
>
> removedata<-function(datafull,var.removed)
> {
> attach(datafull)
> NArandom<-rnorm(n=length(var.removed), mean=0, sd=1)
> for (i in 1:length(var.removed))
>   if(NArandom[i]>0)
>     var.removed[i]<-"NA"
> datamiss<<-datafull
> detach(datafull)
> }
>
> -- Yuval Sapir, PhDResearcherInstitute of Evolution, Haifa UniversityHaifa, Israel 3190‎
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-- 
Dr. Mark Wardle
Specialist registrar, Neurology
Cardiff, UK