To substitute a value in a data.frame while using a function that can be applied, you can use the apply
function. Here is an example:
Suppose you have a data.frame df
with columns col1
and col2
, and you want to substitute all occurrences of the value 0 in col1
with the value 1:
df <- data.frame(col1 = c(0, 1, 2), col2 = c(3, 4, 5))
You can create a function that takes a vector and substitutes all 0's with 1's:
substitute_zero <- function(x) {
x[x == 0] <- 1
return(x)
}
Then, you can apply this function to col1
using apply
:
df[, "col1"] <- apply(df[, "col1", drop = FALSE], 1, substitute_zero)
This will replace all 0's in col1
with 1's. Note that we use drop = FALSE
to preserve the data.frame structure when subsetting df
.
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Asked: 2023-05-02 10:12:08 +0000
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