[R] How to create a new column based on the values from multiple columns which are matching a particular string?

[Eric Berger]

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> On 29 Jul 2019, at 22:23, Ana Marija <sokovic.anamarija using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you so much! Just to confirm here MARGIN=1 indicates that "A" should appear at least once per row?
> 
>> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 1:53 PM Eric Berger <ericjberger using gmail.com> wrote:
>> df$case <- apply(df,MARGIN = 1,function(v) { as.integer("A" %in% v) })
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 9:02 PM Ana Marija <sokovic.anamarija using gmail.com> wrote:
>>> sorry my bad, here is the edited version:
>>> 
>>> so the data frame is this:
>>> 
>>> df=data.frame(
>>>   eye_problemsdisorders_f6148_0_1=c("A","C","D",NA,"D","A","C",NA,"B","A"),
>>>   eye_problemsdisorders_f6148_0_2=c("B","C",NA,"A","C","B",NA,NA,"A","D"),
>>>   eye_problemsdisorders_f6148_0_3=c("C","A","D","D","B","A",NA,NA,"A","B"),
>>>   eye_problemsdisorders_f6148_0_4=c("D","D",NA,"B","A","C",NA,"C","A","B"),
>>>   eye_problemsdisorders_f6148_0_5=c("C","C",NA,"D","B","C",NA,"D","D","B")
>>> 
>>> and I would need to put inside the column which would be named "case" and values inside would be: 1,1,0,1,1,1,0,0,1,1
>>> 
>>> so "case" column is where value "A" can be found in any column.
>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 12:53 PM Eric Berger <ericjberger using gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> You may have a typo/misstatement in your question.
>>>> You define a data frame with 5 columns, each of which has 10 elements, so your data frame has dimensions 10 x 5.
>>>> Then you request a new COLUMN which will have only 5 elements, which is not allowed. All columns of a data frame
>>>> must have the same length. 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 8:42 PM Ana Marija <sokovic.anamarija using gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I have data frame which looks like this:
>>>>> 
>>>>> df=data.frame(
>>>>>   eye_problemsdisorders_f6148_0_1=c(A,C,D,NA,D,A,C,NA,B,A),
>>>>>   eye_problemsdisorders_f6148_0_2=c(B,C,NA,A,C,B,NA,NA,A,D),
>>>>>   eye_problemsdisorders_f6148_0_3=c(C,A,D,D,B,A,NA,NA,A,B),
>>>>>   eye_problemsdisorders_f6148_0_4=c(D,D,NA,B,A,C,NA,C,A,B),
>>>>>   eye_problemsdisorders_f6148_0_5=c(C,C,NA,D,B,C,NA,D,D,B))
>>>>> 
>>>>> In reality I have much more columns and they don't always match
>>>>> "eye_problemsdisorders_f6148" this string, and there is much more rows.
>>>>> 
>>>>> What I would like to do is create a new column, say named "case" where I
>>>>> would have value "1" for every row where string "A" appears at least once
>>>>> in any column, if not the value would be "0". So in the above example
>>>>> column "case" would have these values: 1,1,1,1,0
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Ana
>>>>> 
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