[R] Adding a numeric to all values in the dataframe

[John Kane]

I didn't quite understand your first post. Was it intended to assure that the operation was only on numeric variables?  Otherwise I don't see the differnce in applying the operation to a totally numeric data.frame and a matrix.



-- On Fri, 5/20/11, Bill.Venables at csiro.au <Bill.Venables at csiro.au> wrote:

> From: Bill.Venables at csiro.au <Bill.Venables at csiro.au>
> Subject: Re: [R] Adding a numeric to all values in the dataframe
> To: Bill.Venables at csiro.au, ramya.victory at gmail.com, r-help at r-project.org
> Received: Friday, May 20, 2011, 9:37 PM
> Oops
> 
> The first line of my template should use data.matrix()
> rather than data.frame()
> 
> data.matrix() is guaranteed to return a numerical matrix
> from a data frame, making arithmetic always possible.
> 
> Bill Venables.
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Venables, Bill (CMIS, Dutton Park)
> Sent: 20 May 2011 14:30
> To: 'Ramya'; 'r-help at r-project.org'
> Subject: RE: [R] Adding a numeric to all values in the
> dataframe
> 
> For that kind of operation (unusual as it is) work with
> numeric matrices.  When you are finished, if you still
> want a data frame, make it then, not before.
> 
> If your data starts off as data frame to begin with, turn
> it into a matrix first.  E.g.
> 
> myMatrix <- data.frame(myData)
> myMatrix2 <- myMatrix + 2
> myData2 <- data.frame(myMatrix2)
> 
> Bill Venables.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Ramya
> Sent: Friday, 20 May 2011 1:54 PM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Adding a numeric to all values in the
> dataframe
> 
> Hi there
> 
> I just want to add 2 to all the values in dataframe.
> 
> I tried using sapply but it seem to die all the time.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> Ramya
> 
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