Consider the data.frame:
df <- data.frame(A = c(1,4,2,6,7,3,6), B= c(3,7,2,7,3,5,4), C =
c(2,7,5,2,7,4,5), index = c("A","B","A","C","B","B","C"))
I want to select the column specified in 'index' for every row of 'df', to
get
goal <- c(1, 7, 2, 2, 3, 5, 5)
This sounds a lot like the indexing-by-a-matrix you can do with arrays;
df[cbind(1:nrow(df), df$index)]
but this returns me values that are all characters where I want numbers.
(it seems that indexing by an array isn't well supported for data.frames.)
What is a better way to perform this selection operation?
Peter
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