I used in fact recode() from epilcac package, not the one you mentioned! Arnaud Gaboury A2CT2 Ltd.
-----Original Message----- From: Arnaud Gaboury Sent: mardi 7 février 2012 20:25 To: Jorge I Velez Cc: [email protected]; Arnaud Gaboury Subject: RE: [R] replace elements of a data frame I did indeed have a look at recode(), and was able to replace, but an error warning : > recode(names,"BO","BOO",df) Warning message: In recode.default(names, "BO", "BOO", df) : Name(s) of vars duplicates with an object outside the dataFrame. > df names price 1 BOO 10 2 C 25 3 CL 20 As you can see, "BO" has been replaced by "BOO", but with a warning! Arnaud Gaboury A2CT2 Ltd. From: Jorge I Velez [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: mardi 7 février 2012 19:55 To: Arnaud Gaboury Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [R] replace elements of a data frame Hi Arnaud, Take a look at require(car) ?recode HTH, Jorge.- On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Arnaud Gaboury <> wrote: Hello, I am getting mad at finding a simple way to replace elements of a df. Here is a short df : > names<-c("BO","C","CL") > price<-c("10","25","20") > df<-data.frame(names,price) I want to replace "BO" by "BOB", "C" by "CR", "CL" by "CLO", and the list is more long. I can do that for each element: >df[df=="BO"]<-"BOB" But my df is bigger indeed with other elements. I was thinking using replace(), but can't get any clean result ( NA or all elements replaced with only one), neither with sapply(). TY for any help, and sorry for the n00b question. Arnaud Gaboury A2CT2 Ltd. ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
