Hello, I'm new in R and I want to do one thing that is very easy in excel,
however, I cant do it in R.
Suppose we have the data frame:
data<- data.frame(A=c("a1","a2","a3","a4","a5"))
I need to obtain another column in the same data frame (lets say
B=c(b1,b2,b3,b4,b5) in the following way:
b1=a1/(a1+a2+a3+a4+a5)
b2=a2/(a2+a3+a4+a5)
b3=a3/(a3+a4+a5)
b4=a4/(a4+a5)
b5=a5/a5
a1..a5 and b1...b5 are always numeric values
(this is just an example, what I really want is apply this kind of formula to a
much larger data frame)
I think this is easy for those who are used to work in R (and I suppose there
are many different ways), but I can make it in this moment, because I cannot
leave behind, the "excel thinking way".
I hope you understand my problem and please, help me soon.
Alexandre
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