[R] Replacing values in a data.frame/matrix

[Dimitris Rizopoulos]

how about:

m <- matrix(c(1,2,3,2,1,3,3,1,2), ncol = 3, byrow = TRUE)
perm <- c(1, 3, 2)

out <- perm[m]
dim(out) <- dim(m)
out


I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris


On 3/8/2011 4:05 PM, Thaler, Thorn, LAUSANNE, Applied Mathematics wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Suppose we have the following matrix
>
> m<- matrix(c(1,2,3,2,1,3,3,1,2), ncol = 3, byrow=T)
>
> where in each row each number occurs only once.
>
> I'd like to define a permutation, e.g. 1 ->  2, 2 ->  1, 3 ->  3 and apply
> it to the matrix. Thus, the following matrix should result:
>
> m.perm<- matrix(c(2,1,3,1,2,3,3,2,1), ncol = 3, byrow=T)
>
> i.e. each 1 should map to 2 and vice verse while 3 maps to itself. What
> I've done so far is:
>
> permutateMatrix<- function(mat, perm=NULL) {
>    values<- 1:NCOL(mat)
>    if (is.null(perm)) {
>      perm<- sample(values)
>    }
>    newmat<- replace(mat, sapply(values, function (val) which(mat==val)),
>        rep(perm, each=NROW(mat)))
>    return(list(mat.perm=newmat, perm=perm))
> }
>
> "perm" is the permutation vector: 1 maps to the first element of perm, 2
> to the second and so on. Thus, for the example we would use
>
> perm<- c(2,1,3)
> all.equal(m.perm, permutateMatrix(m, perm)$mat.perm) # TRUE
>
> What do you think of this solution? Are there more elegant ways of doing
> that? Any comments appreciated.
>
> Thanks + BR,
>
> Thorn
>
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