I have two data.frames: mydf1 <- structure(list(symbol = "ETHUSDT", cummulative_quote_qty = 1999.9122, side = "BUY", time = structure(1695656875.805, tzone = "", class = c("POSIXct", "POSIXt"))), row.names = c(NA, -1L), class = c("data.table", "data.frame"))
mydf2 <- structure(list(symbol = c("ETHUSDT", "ETHUSDT", "ETHUSDT"), cummulative_quote_qty = c(1999.119408, 0, 2999.890985), side = c("SELL", "BUY", "BUY"), time = structure(c(1695712848.487, 1695744226.993, 1695744509.082), class = c("POSIXct", "POSIXt" ), tzone = "")), row.names = c(NA, -3L), class = c("data.table", "data.frame")) I use this line to replace 'BUY' by numeric 1 and 'SELL' by numeric -1 in mydf1 and mydf2: mynewdf <- mydf |> dplyr::mutate(side = ifelse(side == 'BUY', 1, ifelse(side == 'SELL', -1, side))) This does the job but I am left with an issue: 1 and -1 are characters for mynewdf2 when it is numeric for mynewdf1. The result I am expecting is getting numeric values. I can't solve this issue (using as.numeric(1) doesn't work) and don't understand why I am left with num for mynewdf1 and characters for mynewdf2. > mynewdf1 <- mydf1 |> dplyr::mutate(side = ifelse(side == 'BUY', 1, ifelse(side == 'SELL', -1, side))) > str(mynewdf1) Classes ‘data.table’ and 'data.frame': 1 obs. of 4 variables: $ symbol : chr "ETHUSDT" $ cummulative_quote_qty: num 2000 $ side : num 1 <<<------ $ time : POSIXct, format: "2023-09-25 17:47:55" - attr(*, ".internal.selfref")=<externalptr> > mynewdf2 <- mydf2 |> dplyr::mutate(side = ifelse(side == 'BUY', 1, ifelse(side == 'SELL', -1, side))) > str(mynewdf2) Classes ‘data.table’ and 'data.frame': 3 obs. of 4 variables: $ symbol : chr "ETHUSDT" "ETHUSDT" "ETHUSDT" $ cummulative_quote_qty: num 1999 0 3000 $ side : chr "-1" "1" "1" <<<------ $ time : POSIXct, format: "2023-09-26 09:20:48" "2023-09-26 18:03:46" "2023-09-26 18:08:29" - attr(*, ".internal.selfref")=<externalptr> Thank you for help [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.