[R] Updating a data frame based on if condition
David Carlson
dcarlson at tamu.edu
Tue Feb 18 21:36:37 CET 2014
What you have can work, but it will be hard to maintain and
debug. Easier to follow is
> cond1 <- mydata$FNAME_TOKEN_COUNT > 3
> cond2 <- mydata$FNAME_LENGTH > 55
> cond3 <- regexpr("9", mydata$FNAME_PATTERN) == 0
> mydata$FNAME_SUSPECT <- apply(cbind(cond1, cond2, cond3), 1,
any)
> mydata$FNAME_SUSPECT
[1] FALSE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE TRUE
FALSE FALSE
[13] TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE
TRUE FALSE
[25] TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE TRUE
TRUE TRUE
[37] FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE FALSE FALSE
TRUE TRUE
[49] TRUE TRUE
And adding or changing a condition is pretty simple
David C
From: Jeff Johnson [mailto:mrjefftoyou at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 12:54 PM
To: dcarlson at tamu.edu
Cc: R help
Subject: Re: [R] Updating a data frame based on if condition
Ahh, I was specifying the second argument FALSE incorrectly.
Works now as:
mydata$FNAME_SUSPECT <- ifelse(mydata$FNAME_TOKEN_COUNT > 3,
TRUE,
ifelse(mydata$FNAME_LENGTH > 55, TRUE,
ifelse(regexpr("9", mydata$FNAME_PATTERN) ==
0, TRUE, FALSE
)
)
)
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Jeff Johnson
<mrjefftoyou at gmail.com> wrote:
This is my first time with ifelse, but I've tried:
mydata$FNAME_SUSPECT <- ifelse(mydata$FNAME_TOKEN_COUNT > 3,
TRUE, FALSE,
ifelse(mydata$FNAME_LENGTH > 35, TRUE, FALSE,
ifelse(regexpr("9", mydata$FNAME_PATTERN) >
0, TRUE, FALSE
)
)
)
Error in ifelse(mydata$FNAME_TOKEN_COUNT > 3, TRUE, FALSE,
ifelse(mydata$FNAME_LENGTH > :
unused argument (ifelse(mydata$FNAME_LENGTH > 35, TRUE, FALSE,
ifelse(regexpr("9", mydata$FNAME_PATTERN) > 0, TRUE, FALSE)))
I have the R for Dummies book which covers it a bit, but I just
ordered the R Cookbook.
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:16 AM, David Carlson
<dcarlson at tamu.edu> wrote:
Not always true, but it is in this case:
?ifelse
David C
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Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 11:24 AM
To: R help
Subject: [R] Updating a data frame based on if condition
I have a subset of data that I have identified as "suspect" (for
example,
the first name has excessive spaces, is longer than 35
characters or has a
number).
What I want to do is update the FNAME_SUSPECT field in "mydata"
to TRUE if
any of those conditions are met.
Here's my data:
> dput(mydata)
structure(list(PERSON_FIRST_NAME = c("1298530", "JULIA, TAYLOR,
CS AND
JEFF",
"88", "4465891170098562", "1124211", "LEWIS & MARY KAY", "KARL R
O S",
"5466181820076010", "JULI0 C", "WAYNE T.", "1124211",
"1124211",
"ROBERT B & VIONA D", "DENNIS and MARY SUE", "BRIAN JOANNE",
"1124211", "RONALD and GAIL", "Mike and Mary Lou", "31763006",
"7", "11460735", "Paul and Mary Beth", "JIMMY and RUTH MARIE",
"1124211", "WAYNE & LU ANN", "SCOTT & ANNA MARIE", "1124211",
"1124211", "952714", "DAVID, RHONDA and NATALIE", "VIRGINIA
S",
"707069", "4397836190001917", "MARIA DE LA LUZ", "MARIA DE LA
LUZ",
"G & S COMPUTERIZED GRADING", "1124211", "1124211", "1124211",
"1124211", "MARIA DE LA LUZ", "ED AND JANICE KISHI", "1124211",
"Garrett A. and Jenny E.", "1124211", "1124211", "Hiram T. and
A. Judith",
"MA DE LA LUZ", "STEVE, Bev, and Caleb", "MR AND MRS EVER"),
FNAME_SUSPECT = c(FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE,
FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE,
FALSE,
FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE,
FALSE,
FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE,
FALSE,
FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE,
FALSE,
FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE),
FNAME_LENGTH = c(7L, 26L, 2L, 16L, 7L, 16L, 10L, 16L, 7L,
10L, 7L, 7L, 18L, 19L, 14L, 7L, 16L, 17L, 8L, 1L, 8L, 18L,
20L, 7L, 14L, 18L, 7L, 7L, 6L, 25L, 12L, 6L, 16L, 15L, 15L,
26L, 7L, 7L, 7L, 7L, 15L, 19L, 7L, 23L, 7L, 7L, 22L, 12L,
21L, 15L), FNAME_PATTERN = c("9999999",
"AAAAA,_AAAAAA,_AA_AAA_AAAA",
"99", "9999999999999999", "9999999", "AAAAA_&_AAAA_AAA",
"AAAA_A_A_A", "9999999999999999", "AAAA9_A", "AAAAA___A.",
"9999999", "9999999", "AAAAAA_A_&_AAAAA_A",
"AAAAAA_AAA_AAAA_AAA",
"AAAAA___AAAAAA", "9999999", "AAAAAA_AAA__AAAA",
"AAAA_AAA_AAAA_AAA",
"99999999", "9", "99999999", "AAAA_AAA_AAAA_AAAA",
"AAAAA_AAA_AAAA_AAAAA",
"9999999", "AAAAA_&_AA_AAA", "AAAAA_&_AAAA_AAAAA",
"9999999",
"9999999", "999999", "AAAAA,_AAAAAA_AAA_AAAAAAA",
"AAAAAAAA___A",
"999999", "9999999999999999", "AAAAA_AA_AA_AAA",
"AAAAA_AA_AA_AAA",
"A_&_A_AAAAAAAAAAAA_AAAAAAA", "9999999", "9999999",
"9999999",
"9999999", "AAAAA_AA_AA_AAA", "AA_AAA_AAAAAA_AAAAA",
"9999999",
"AAAAAAA_A._AAA_AAAAA_A.", "9999999", "9999999",
"AAAAA_A._AAA_A._AAAAAA",
"AA_AA_AA_AAA", "AAAAA,_AAA,_AAA_AAAAA", "AA_AAA_AAA_AAAA"
), FNAME_TOKEN_COUNT = c(1L, 5L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 4L, 4L, 1L,
2L, 4L, 1L, 1L, 5L, 4L, 4L, 1L, 4L, 4L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 4L, 4L,
1L, 4L, 4L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 4L, 4L, 1L, 1L, 4L, 4L, 5L, 1L, 1L,
1L, 1L, 4L, 4L, 1L, 5L, 1L, 1L, 5L, 4L, 4L, 4L)), .Names =
c("PERSON_FIRST_NAME",
"FNAME_SUSPECT", "FNAME_LENGTH", "FNAME_PATTERN",
"FNAME_TOKEN_COUNT"
), row.names = c(6717L, 11035L, 11626L, 14965L, 17874L, 24341L,
25582L, 25834L, 26851L, 30134L, 36385L, 45244L, 46947L, 61449L,
67564L, 71465L, 73782L, 75278L, 78977L, 79037L, 80577L, 81644L,
84427L, 86286L, 89963L, 91208L, 94054L, 99518L, 114658L,
128305L,
129082L, 137492L, 137573L, 138556L, 139489L, 148757L, 153956L,
155546L, 160533L, 162386L, 162681L, 165220L, 168063L, 173003L,
175322L, 179935L, 180991L, 181215L, 183787L, 184573L), class =
"data.frame")
Note I defaulted all of the FNAME_SUSPECT to FALSE. I plan to
change that
later.
I've tried running this:
if(mydata$FNAME_TOKEN_COUNT > 3 | mydata$FNAME_LENGTH > 35 |
regexpr("9",
mydata$FNAME_PATTERN) > 0)
mydata$FNAME_SUSPECT <- TRUE
however I get the error:
Warning message:
In if (mydata$FNAME_TOKEN_COUNT > 3 | mydata$FNAME_LENGTH > 35 |
:
the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will
be used
Would I be better doing this in a for loop? I had once heard
that if you're
doing a for loop in R, you're doing something wrong.
--
Jeff
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