[R] identifying when one element of a row has a positive number

[Peter Langfelder]

Here's a solution., maybe not the most elegant but works.

df.r = df1[, c(3:5)]; # restricted data

nNonZero = apply(df.r!=0, 1, sum);
one = nNonZero==1;
oneZero = nNonZero==2;

whichOne = apply(df.r[one, ]!=0, 1, which);
whichZero = apply(df.r[oneZero, ]==0, 1, which);

colNames = colnames(df.r);

one_presence = one_absence = rep(NA, nrow(df1))

one_presence[one] = colNames[whichOne];
one_absence[oneZero] = colNames[whichZero];

Peter

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Daisy Englert Duursma
<daisy.duursma at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am not sure where to begin with this problem or what to search for
> in r-help. I just don't know what to call this.
>
> If I have 5 columns, the first 2 are the x,y, locations and the last
> three are variables about those locations.
>
> x<-seq(1860,1950,by=10)
> y<-seq(-290,-200,by=10)
> ANN<-c(3,0,0,0,1,0,1,1,0,0)
> CTA<-c(0,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,2)
> GLM<-c(0,0,2,0,0,0,0,1,0,0)
> df1<-as.data.frame(cbind(x,y,ANN,CTA,GLM))
>
> What I would like to produce is an additional column that tells when
> only 1 of the three variables has a value greater than 0. I would like
> this new column to give the name of the variable. Likewise, I would
> like a column that tells one only one of the three variables for a
> given row has a value of 0. For my example the new columns would be:
>
> one_presence<-c("ANN","CTA","GLM","NA","ANN","NA","NA","NA","NA","CTA")
> one_absence<-c("NA","NA","NA","NA","NA","NA","GLM","CTA","NA","NA")
>
> The end result should look like
>
> df2<-(cbind(df1,one_presence,one_absence))
>
> I am sure I can do this with a loop or maybe grep but I am out of ideas.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Daisy
>
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