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How do you update a dataframe within a for loop in R after passing a list?

asked 2021-05-31 11:00:00 +0000

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answered 2021-10-05 18:00:00 +0000

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To update a dataframe within a for loop in R after passing a list, you can do the following:

  1. Create a dataframe with empty values to hold the final results.
  2. Define the for loop.
  3. Within the for loop, iterate through the list and apply the necessary transformations to each element.
  4. Append the transformed element to the final dataframe using the rbind() function.

Here is an example code:

# Creating an empty dataframe
final_df <- data.frame()

# Creating a list of values
values <- list(10, 20, 30)

# Defining the for loop
for (i in seq_along(values)) {
  # Applying transformations to each element of the list
  new_value <- values[[i]] * 2

  # Creating a temporary dataframe to hold the transformed values
  temp_df <- data.frame(original_value = values[[i]], transformed_value = new_value)

  # Appending the temporary dataframe to the final dataframe
  final_df <- rbind(final_df, temp_df)
}

# Printing the final dataframe
final_df

The output should be:

  original_value transformed_value
1             10                20
2             20                40
3             30                60
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