Try this: 2 * (DF == "+") - (DF != "-")
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Juergen Rose <r...@rz.uni-potsdam.de> wrote: > The second beginner question. I want to create a new dataframe, where > each element of the original dataframe is translated to 1 if it was "+", > to 0 if it was "-" to -1 otherwise. I could do with: > > Lines <- "a b c d > + - + + > + + + - > + 1 - '+ ' > - + + + > + N - +" > > > DF <- read.table(textConnection(Lines), header = TRUE) > cnames <- colnames(DF) > nrow <-length(rownames(DF)) > > nc <- length(cnames) > NDF <- data.frame(matrix(c(rep(0,nc*nrow)),ncol=nc)) > > for (i in 1:length(cnames)) { > NDF[,i] <- sapply(DF[,i],function(x) if (x=="+") {1} else {if (x=="-") > {0} else {-1}} ) > } > colnames(NDF) <- cnames > > But this is shure one loop too much. Please give me the R way solution. > > ______________________________________________ > 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.