[R] Recode values

[peter dalgaard]

On 22 Nov 2013, at 11:13 , lillosdos <lillo_dicarlo at live.it> wrote:

> Hi I'm Pasquale,
> I need to recode variables (columns) of a dataframe (call it X). The
> observations (rows) are coded as numeric 0,1,2 and NA. I managed to use the
> lapply() function with recode() as FUN and for() loop but I failed.
> *My problem is that for each columns the recoding system is different *(i.e.
> for V1 the code will be 0=a, 1=b, 2=c, for V2 0=z, 1=y, 2=x). 
> My new codes are stored in another data frame (call it Y). colnames(X) and
> rownames(Y) matches.
> How can I solve this situation?

Why rownames(Y) (typo?)

I’d expect the ticket to be 

f <- function(x,names) factor(x, levels=0:2, labels=names)  

and then

mapply(FUN=f, X, listofnamevectors)

where listofnamevectors could be just Y or as.data.frame(t(Y)) depending on whether rownames(Y) was really colnames(Y) or not.

> 
> Thanks a lot in advance,
> Pasquale
> 
> 
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