[R] help with doing a manipulation on a column of a data frame based on another column
Rolf Turner
r.turner at auckland.ac.nz
Wed Oct 29 02:54:39 CET 2008
On 29/10/2008, at 2:41 PM, stephen sefick wrote:
> #this is my stab at - I am sure that I am missing something. If this
> doesn't make sense then please ask for more details. #This may show
> my low level of programing knowledge
>
> hester. <- c(1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,4,4,4,4)
> value <- rnorm(16)
> x <- data.frame(value, hester.)
>
> z <-
> (if(x[,"hester."]==1){
> x[,"value"]*6.250}
> else
> if(x[,"hester."]==2){
> x[,"value"]*3.125}
> else
> if(x[,"hester."]==3){
> x[,"value"]*2.100}
> else
> if(x[,"hester."]==4){
> x[,"value"]*1.600})
Does this do what you want?
> h <- rep(1:4,each=4)
> z <- c(6.25,3.125,2.1,1.6)[match(h,1:4)]
> x <- data.frame(hester.=h,value=z)
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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