[R] Adding column values based on a condition

Bert Gunter
Sun, 07 Jul 2019 14:25:02 -0000

Can't this be done more simply and efficiently (no sapply implied loops, no
conditionals) just with indexing?

Using Eric's example:

df <-within(df,
      parent_author_id <- author_id[match(parent_id, id)]
       )

> df
   id author_id parent_id parent_author_id
1 101        25        NA               NA
2 102        24        NA               NA
3 103        23       101               25
4 104        22        NA               NA
5 105        21        NA               NA

Cheers,
Bert

Bert Gunter

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On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 11:33 PM Eric Berger <ericjberger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> # create some test data
> df <- data.frame( id=101:105, author_id=25:21,
parent_id=c(NA,NA,101,NA,NA)
> )
>
> df$parent_author_id <- sapply(1:nrow(df),
>               function(i) { if( !is.na(df$parent_id[i]) ) { j <-
> match(df$parent_id[i],df$id); df$author_id[j] } else NA } )
>
> df
>
> #   id author_id parent_id parent_author_id
> # 1 101        25        NA               NA
> # 2 102        24        NA               NA
> # 3 103        23       101               25
> # 4 104        22        NA               NA
> # 5 105        21        NA               NA
>
> HTH,
> Eric
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 7:59 AM Alessandro Puglisi <
> alessandro.puglisi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I have a tibble regarding a series of comments on a forum; the tibble
> has a
> > certain number of variables, and in particular:
> >
> > id: comment id;
> > author_id: author id;
> > parent_id: if the message is a reply, the original comment id
> >
> > I want to add another column, in which I put the author id of the
> original
> > comment, when parent_id IS NOT NA.
> >
> > I already tried to use mutate + ifelse but my problem is that I have
to
> > refer to an author id in a different row than that in which I'm
> evaluating
> > the if condition...
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Alessandro
> >
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