Chuck wrote:
I have a dataframe with almost a million rows which has one column with strings. That column has several entries with the words "South", "North", "East" and "West" which I would like to replace with S, N, E, and W, respectively. Obviously, I can use gsub multiple times df $col2 <- gsub("West", "W", df$col2) which will require multiple scans of the column.Is there a succinct approach where all the replacements can be done with a single scan? Thanks.
You don't give a toy example. If they are factors, just see the ?levels function, including its replacement version.
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