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

[John Kane]

--- jim holtman <jholtman at gmail.com> 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 <jrkrideau at yahoo.ca> 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 find out
> here
> > "blaw " is in columns without manually counting
> them
> > or converting names(Df) to a list and reading down
> the
> > list.
> >
> > Simple example
> >
> > cat <- c( 3,5,6,8,0)
> > dog <- c(3,5,3,6, 0)
> > rat <- c (5, 5, 4, 9, 0)
> > bat <- c( 12, 42, 45, 32, 54)
> >
> > Df <- data.frame(cbind(cat, dog, rat, bat))
> > Df
> > subset(Df, bat >= 50)
> >
> > ----results
> > cat dog rat bat
> > 5   0   0   0  54
> >
> >
> > Thus I know that my target is in row 5 but how do
> I
> > figure out where 'bat' is?
> >
> > All I want to do is be able to say
> > Df[5,4] <- 100
> >
> > Is there some way to have function(bat) return the
> > column number: some kind of a colnum() function? 
> I
> > had thought that I had found somthing  in
> > library(gdata) matchcols but no luck.
> >
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> 
> 
> 
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> Jim Holtman
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> What is the problem you are trying to solve?
>