[R] Help with strings

[André Luis Neves]

Dear all,

I have had difficulties copying the word "alcohol" in the "vehicle" column
to replace the string in the column "accident_type". It is a huge list but
I have prepared a workable and simple example below and the desired
output.  I am sure you guys can give me some advice on how to deal with
this.

 sapply( all_files, function(x) dim(x))
      [,1]  [,2]  [,3]  [,4]
[1,] 89563 69295 67446 39709
[2,]    33    33    33    33



###Simple List

A= data.frame(c("1", "2", "3", "4"),c(4:7),c("car", "byke", "alcohol",
"motocycle"), c("alcohol", "cell_phone", "some_string", "fog"))
colnames(A) <- c("id", "km","vehicle","accident_cause")
A


B= data.frame(c("1", "2", "3", "4"),c(4:7),c("car", "alcohol", "car",
"motocycle"), c("alcohol", "some_string", "rain", "fog"))
colnames(B) <- c("id", "km", "vehicle", "accident_type")
B


C= data.frame(c("1", "2", "3", "4"),c(4:7),c("car", "alcohol", "car",
"alcohol"), c("alcohol", "some_string", "rain", "some_string"))
colnames(C) <- c("id", "km", "vehicle", "accident_type")
C

mylist <- list(A=A,B=B,C=C)
mylist


###Desired output

A= data.frame(c("1", "2", "3", "4"),c(4:7),c("car", "byke", "alcohol",
"motocycle"), c("alcohol", "cell_phone", "alcohol", "fog"))
colnames(A) <- c("id", "km","vehicle","accident_cause")
A


B= data.frame(c("1", "2", "3", "4"),c(4:7),c("car", "alcohol", "car",
"motocycle"), c("alcohol", "alcohol", "rain", "fog"))
colnames(B) <- c("id", "km", "vehicle", "accident_type")
B


C= data.frame(c("1", "2", "3", "4"),c(4:7),c("car", "alcohol", "car",
"alcohol"), c("alcohol", "alcohol", "rain", "alcohol"))
colnames(C) <- c("id", "km", "vehicle", "accident_type")
C

mylist <- list(A=A,B=B,C=C)
mylist


##Thank you very much,

-- 
Andre

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