[R] Replacing a few variable values within a DataFrame...

Jason Rupert jasonkrupert at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 23 18:39:42 CET 2009


I would like to replace a few varaibles within a data frame. 

For example, in the dataframe below (contrived) I would like to replace the current housesize value only if the Location is HSV.   However, I would like to leave the other values intact.  


I tried "ifelse", but I don't really need the else condition. 

test_data2_df<-data.frame(Variables=c("SQR Footage","SQR Footage","SQR Footage","SQR Footage","SQR Footage","SQR Footage","SQR Footage","SQR Footage","SQR Footage","SQR Footage","SQR Footage","SQR Footage","SQR Footage","SQR Footage","SQR Footage"),HouseSize=c(10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 15, 25, 35, 45, 55, 18, 28, 38, 48, 58), Lot=c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 11, 21, 31, 41, 51), Location=c("HSV", "ATH", "HSV", "ATH", "FLO", 
                                     "HSV", "ATH", "HSV", "ATH", "FLO", 
                                     "HSV", "ATH", "HSV", "ATH", "FLO"))

Moreover, I want to preserve the rest of the values within the data.  I thought some combination using the subset would get me there, but I ended up with a long and ungangly looking code. 

Thanks for any help that is offered.




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