Try this
x[(row(x[1]) %in% 2:5) & x$a==1,4:5] <- c(8,9)
x[(row(x[1]) %in% 2:5) & x$a!=1,4:5] <- c(101,102)
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski <ld7...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello, dear R-ers!
>
> I have a data frame:
>
> x<-data.frame(a=c(4,2,4,1,3,4),b=c(1,3,4,1,5,0),c=c(NA,2,5,3,4,NA),d=rep(NA,6),e=rep(NA,6))
> x
>
> When x$a==1, I would like to replace NAs in columns d and e with 8 and
> 9, respectively
> When x$a != 1, I would like to replace NAs in columns d and e 101 and
> 1022, respectively.
>
> However, I only want to do it for rows 2:5 - while ignoring what's
> happening in rows 1 and 6.
>
> Here is what I've come up with:
>
> x
> for(i in 2:5){
> x[i & x[[1]]==1,4:5]<-c(8,9)
> x[i & x[[1]]!=1,4:5]<-c(101,102)
> }
> x
>
> However, something is wrong here.
> First, rows 1 and 6 are not ignored.
> Second, the order of 101 and 102 changes - I, however, always want to
> see 101 in column d and 102 in column e.
>
> Any advice?
> Thanks a lot!
>
> --
> Dimitri Liakhovitski
> Ninah.com
> dimitri.liakhovit...@ninah.com
>
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