The tibble shows the 'date' column as type date but you are comparing
io a string.
Perhaps replace that piece by
date == as.Date("2021-10-23")
Not tested.
HTH,
Eric
On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 2:26 PM Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nos...@lisse.na> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have data from JHU via the 'coronavirus' package which has a value for
> the confirmed cases for 2021-10-23 which differs drastically (357) from
> what is reported in country (23).
>
> # A tibble: 962 × 4
> country date type cases
> <chr> <date> <chr> <int>
> 1 Namibia 2021-10-24 confirmed 23
> 2 Namibia 2021-10-24 death 4
> 3 Namibia 2021-10-23 confirmed 357
> 4 Namibia 2021-10-23 death 1
> 5 Namibia 2021-10-22 confirmed 30
> 6 Namibia 2021-10-22 death 1
> # … with 956 more rows
>
> I am using a '%>%' pipeline and am struggling to mutate 'cases' to NA
> using something like
>
> country == 'Namibia' & date == '2021-10-23' & cases == 357
>
> so that if or when the data-set is corrected I don't have to change the
> code (immediately), even after some googling.
>
> I can do
>
> cases == 357
>
> only, but that could find other cases as well, which is obviously not
> the thing to do
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> greetings, el
>
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