R help - May 2018 - Fill down a new column in data frame with a number

Hi,

I am a begginer in R programming.

I am traying to create a a column in my data frame  filled down with a
number.
> df$newcolumn <-  number
How can I do it? I am considering use rep() but in this case it is
necessary know the number of rows in each data base that I have and I would
like to do it in a faster ( and more  elegant) way.


TKs

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Why doesn't the code you posted work for you? "number" appears to
be a
constant, so R will fill automatically the correct length.
(Note that calling your data frame df leads to confusion.)
> mydf <- data.frame(a=letters[1:5], b=runif(5))
> mydf
  a          b
1 a 0.52880425
2 b 0.02422788
3 c 0.56089766
4 d 0.99007900
5 e 0.45031033
> mydf$newcolumn <- 10
> mydf
  a          b newcolumn
1 a 0.52880425        10
2 b 0.02422788        10
3 c 0.56089766        10
4 d 0.99007900        10
5 e 0.45031033        10

If that isn't what you want the output to look like, please provide
more information.

Sarah

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 9:04 AM, Marcelo Mariano Silva
<marcelomarianosilva at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a begginer in R programming.
>
> I am traying to create a a column in my data frame  filled down with a
> number.
>
>> df$newcolumn <-  number
>
> How can I do it? I am considering use rep() but in this case it is
> necessary know the number of rows in each data base that I have and I would
> like to do it in a faster ( and more  elegant) way.
>
>
> TKs
>

-- 
Sarah Goslee
http://www.functionaldiversity.org

> I am traying to create a a column in my data frame  filled down with a
> number.
> 
> > df$newcolumn <-  number
> 
> How can I do it? I am considering use rep() but in this case it is
> necessary know the number of rows in each data base that I have and I would
> like to do it in a faster ( and more  elegant) way.
dframe$newcol <- rep(n, nrow(dframe))

Notes:
- 'df' is the density for the F distribution; safer to avoid giving data
names of functions;
- 'nrow' returns the number of rows in an existing data frame or other
object with dimensions.




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Hello,

You don't need rep(), R will fill the entire column with the number.
See the example below.


dat <- data.frame(x = 1:10)
dat$newnumber <- 20
dat
#    x newnumber
#1   1        20
#2   2        20
#3   3        20
#4   4        20
#5   5        20
#6   6        20
#7   7        20
#8   8        20
#9   9        20
#10 10        20

So your code works: df$newcolumn <-  number

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

On 5/10/2018 2:04 PM, Marcelo Mariano Silva wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am a begginer in R programming.
> 
> I am traying to create a a column in my data frame  filled down with a
> number.
> 
>> df$newcolumn <-  number
> 
> How can I do it? I am considering use rep() but in this case it is
> necessary know the number of rows in each data base that I have and I would
> like to do it in a faster ( and more  elegant) way.
> 
> 
> TKs
> 
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> 
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