I've been looking for how to change a certain percentage of values in a data frame, but I've been struggling to find information in R.
For example: #################example data############## > data V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 1 chr1 500 500 CHH 0 0.5 + 2 chr1 550 550 CHH 0 0.0 + 3 chr2 700 700 CHH 0 0.0 + 4 chr2 1000 1000 CHH 0 0.0 + 5 chr3 100 100 CHH 0 0.0 + 6 chr4 450 450 CG 0 0.0 + 7 chr5 450 450 CHH 0 0.0 + 8 chr5 50034 50034 CHG 0 0.0 + 9 chr7 50055 50055 CHG 0 0.0 + 10 chr10 50063 50063 CHH 0 0.0 + > dput(data) structure(list(V1 = structure(c(1L, 1L, 3L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 6L, 6L, 7L, 2L), .Label = c("chr1", "chr10", "chr2", "chr3", "chr4", "chr5", "chr7"), class = "factor"), V2 = c(500L, 550L, 700L, 1000L, 100L, 450L, 450L, 50034L, 50055L, 50063L), V3 = c(500L, 550L, 700L, 1000L, 100L, 450L, 450L, 50034L, 50055L, 50063L), V4 = structure(c(3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 1L, 3L, 2L, 2L, 3L), .Label = c("CG", "CHG", "CHH"), class = "factor"), V5 = c(0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L), V6 = c(0.5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), V7 = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L), .Label = "+", class = "factor")), .Names = c("V1", "V2", "V3", "V4", "V5", "V6", "V7"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -10L)) > ############################ Say for instance, I'd like to change 20% of values in column 6 to '1' instead of zero or whatever value may be currently present. How would I approach this? I am working with a large data frame and I need to replace values in one of the columns for 10-20% of the entire dataset. I hope what I am trying to convey is understandable to you. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/replacing-percentage-of-values-in-data-frame-tp3920484p3920484.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.