This will accomplish what you want and should be relatively easy to modify.
# Create data.fram names <- c("S1", "S2", "S3", "S4") X <- c("BB", "AA", "AB", "AA") Y <- c("BB", "BB", "AB", "AA") Z <- c("BB", "BB", "AA", NA) AorB <- c("A", "A", "B", "B") sample <- data.frame(names, X, Y, Z, AorB, stringsAsFactors=FALSE) # Create recoded data.frame samplemod <- sample samplemod[,2:4] <- NA # Recoded values into samplemod for (i in 1:nrow(sample)) { for (j in 2:4) { if (!is.na(sample[i,j])){ if (sample[i, 5] == "A") { samplemod[i,j] <- switch(sample[i,j], AA = 2, AB = 1, BA = 1, BB = 0) } else { if (sample[i, 5] == "B") { samplemod[i,j] <- switch(sample[i,j], AA = 0, AB = 1, BA = 1, BB = 2) } } } } } ---------------------------------------------- David L Carlson Associate Professor of Anthropology Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4352 From: Priya Bhatt [mailto:bhatt...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 1:55 PM To: dcarl...@tamu.edu; r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Help needed for efficient way to loop through rows and columns Yes here it is. I actually convert them all as strings, initially using options(stringsAsFactors=F) at the top of my code. This what the initial dataframe looks like. Please note this is a toy dataset: names X Y Z AorB S1 BB BB BB A S2 AA BB BB A S3 AB AB AA B S4 AA AA NA B And the code to create this initial dataframe is: names <- c("S1", "S2", "S3", "S4") X <- c("BB", "AA", "AB", "AA") Y <- c("BB", "BB", "AB", "AA") Z <- c("BB", "BB", "AA", NA) AorB <- c("A", "A", "B", "B") sample <- data.frame(names, X, Y, Z, AorB) The final data.frame should look like: names X Y Z AorB S1 0 0 0 A S2 2 0 0 A S3 1 1 0 B S4 0 0 NA B You're right! - I'll should be able to globally change all ABs and BAs to 1s. Thanks:) I'm not exactly sure how to change AA and BB depending on AorB for each row though. Thoughts? Thanks for your help thus far, David. Best, Priya On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 6:53 AM, David L Carlson <dcarl...@tamu.edu> wrote: Can you show us what you want the final data.frame to look like? You've created five variables stored as factors and you seem to be trying to change those to numeric values? Is that correct? Since AB and BA are always set to 1, you could just replace those values globally rather than mess with the ifelse commands for those values. Only AA and BB are affected by the value of AorB. Your apply() function processes the data.frame by row so i is a vector consisting of all the values in the row. You seem to be coding as if i was a single integer (as in a for loop). ---------------------------------------------- David L Carlson Associate Professor of Anthropology Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4352 > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Priya Bhatt > Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 3:08 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Help needed for efficient way to loop through rows and > columns > > Dear R-helpers: > > I am trying to write a script that iterates through a dataframe that > looks > like this: > > > Example dataset called "sample": > > names <- c("S1", "S2", "S3", "S4") > X <- c("BB", "AB", "AB", "AA") > Y <- c("BB", "BB", "AB", "AA") > Z <- c("BB", "BB", "AB", NA) > AorB <- c("A", "A", "A", "B") > > sample <- data.frame(names, X, Y, Z, AorB) > > > for a given row, > > if AorB == A, then AA == 2, AB = 1, BA = 1, BB = 0 > > if AorB == B, then AA == 0, AB = 1, BA = 1, BB = 2 > > I've been trying to write this using apply and ifelse statements in > hopes > that my code runs quickly, but I'm afraid I've make a big mess. See > below: > > apply(sample, 1, function(i) { > > > ifelse(sample$AorB[i] == "A", > (ifelse(sample[i,] == "AA", sample[i,] <- 2 , > ifelse(sample[i,] == "AB" || sample[i,] == "BA" , > sample[i,] <- 1, > ifelse(sample[i,] == "BB", sample[i,] <- 0, > sample[i,] <- NA )) ) > ) , ifelse(sample$AorB[i,] == "B"), > (ifelse(sample[i,] == "AA", sample[i,] <- 0 , > ifelse(sample[i,] == "AB" || sample[i,] == "BA" , > sample[i,] <- 1, > ifelse(sample[i,] == "BB", sample[i,] <- 2, > sample[i,] <- NA))))) }) > > > Any Advice? > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.