Re: [R] Finding the position of a variable in a data.frame

2006-08-03 Thread Don MacQueen
You don't need to find out the column index. This works: Df[5,'bat'] - 100 -Don At 5:01 PM -0400 8/2/06, John Kane wrote: Simple problem but I don't see the answer. I'm trying to clean up some data I have 120 columns in a data.frame. I have one value in a column named blaw that I want to

Re: [R] Finding the position of a variable in a data.frame

2006-08-03 Thread John Kane
--- Don MacQueen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't need to find out the column index. This works: Df[5,'bat'] - 100 -Don Thanks, I'd tried Df[5, bat] - 100 :( I never thought of the ' ' being needed. At 5:01 PM -0400 8/2/06, John Kane wrote: Simple problem but I don't see

Re: [R] Finding the position of a variable in a data.frame

2006-08-03 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 8/3/06, John Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Don MacQueen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't need to find out the column index. This works: Df[5,'bat'] - 100 -Don Thanks, I'd tried Df[5, bat] - 100 :( I never thought of the ' ' being needed. Right -- the quotes are

[R] Finding the position of a variable in a data.frame

2006-08-02 Thread John Kane
Simple problem but I don't see the answer. I'm trying to clean up some data I have 120 columns in a data.frame. I have one value in a column named blaw that I want to change. How do I find the coordinates. I can find the row by doing a subset on the data.frame but how do I find out here blaw is

Re: [R] Finding the position of a variable in a data.frame

2006-08-02 Thread jim holtman
?which which(Df = 50, arr.ind=T) row col 5 5 4 On 8/2/06, John Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simple problem but I don't see the answer. I'm trying to clean up some data I have 120 columns in a data.frame. I have one value in a column named blaw that I want to change. How do I

Re: [R] Finding the position of a variable in a data.frame

2006-08-02 Thread John Kane
--- jim holtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ?which which(Df = 50, arr.ind=T) row col 5 5 4 I knew it was going to be blinding obvious! I even read ?which somehow misunderstood arr.ind. Thanks again. On 8/2/06, John Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simple problem but I don't

Re: [R] Finding the position of a variable in a data.frame

2006-08-02 Thread roger koenker
it is the well-known wicked which problem: if you had (grammatically incorrectly) thought ... which I want to change then you might have been led to type (in another window): ?which and you would have seen the light. Maybe that() should be an alias for which()? url:

Re: [R] Finding the position of a variable in a data.frame

2006-08-02 Thread Chuck Cleland
John Kane wrote: Simple problem but I don't see the answer. I'm trying to clean up some data I have 120 columns in a data.frame. I have one value in a column named blaw that I want to change. How do I find the coordinates. I can find the row by doing a subset on the data.frame but how do I

Re: [R] Finding the position of a variable in a data.frame

2006-08-02 Thread John Kane
--- Chuck Cleland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane wrote: Simple problem but I don't see the answer. I'm trying to clean up some data I have 120 columns in a data.frame. I have one value in a column named blaw that I want to change. How do I find the coordinates. I can find the

Re: [R] Finding the position of a variable in a data.frame

2006-08-02 Thread John Kane
--- roger koenker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it is the well-known wicked which problem: if you had (grammatically incorrectly) thought ... which I want to change then you might have been led to type (in another window): ?which and you would have seen the light. Maybe that()

Re: [R] Finding the position of a variable in a data.frame

2006-08-02 Thread Gerald Jansen
On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:12:53 -0400, Chuck Cleland wrote: Why not do it this way? Df$bat - replace(Df$bat, Df$bat =50, 100) Is that any different, performancewise, than the following? Df$bat[Df$bat = 50] - 100 Gerald Jansen ... John Kane wrote: Simple example cat - c( 3,5,6,8,0) dog -