[R] to modify a matrix : Summary

[Mitsuo Igarashi]

I truly thank for evrybody to give me many very
good answers and suggestions.

I like to summarize the replies with their results
when excuted on R and with my comments.

My question is
> x <- matrix(1:10.,5)
> x
     [,1] [,2]
[1,]    1    6
[2,]    2    7
[3,]    3    8
[4,]    4    9
[5,]    5   10
there is a matrix. On condition x[? ,1]=3, how to modify the
appropriate location to be x[? ,2] * 5.

SUMMARY
(1) x[,2] <- x[,2]*(1+4*(x[,1]==3))
  good result, a little bit tricky.

(2) x[,2] <- ifelse(x[,1]==3, x[,2]*5, x[,2])
  good result, easy to be understood.

(3) for(i in 1:5) {if (x[,1]==3) {x[,2] <- 5*x[,2]}}
  unable to get any modification, theoretically easily undrstandable
from a programmer.

(4) rowstochange <- x[,1]==3
    x[rowstochange,2] <- x[rowstochange,2]*5
  good result, to give many suggetions.

When I excute "rowstochange <- x[,1]==3", I have
> rowstochange
[1] FALSE FALSE  TRUE FALSE FALSE  .

This is my first time to realize the meaning of the
expression of "x[,1]==3". This short sentence has inclusively
the way of "for", "repeat", and/or  "if" clauses.
This is the wonderful part of R and the difficult part.

(5) x[x[,1]==3,2] <- x[x[,1]==3,2]*5
  good result, simple, direct and straight.

My Best Gegards to everyone concerned.

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