replace: Replace values in a vector

In dustinfife/fifer: A Biostatisticians Toolbox for Various Activities, Including Plotting, Data Cleanup, and Data Analysis

Description

Replace the values in a vector with a new value

Usage

replace(x, old.value, new.value, factor = F)

Arguments

x	The vector that has values that need replacing
old.value	The value that needs replacing
new.value	The value that will replace old.value
factor	Should the vector be "refactored" (so old values no longer show up as a factor level)?

Details

This function searches the vector provided for old.values, then replaces each occurance with new.values

Value

A new vector where old.values are replaced by new.values

Author(s)

Dustin Fife

Examples

d = data.frame(category = sample(c("Male", "Female", "Men"), prob=c(.45, .45, .05), size=100, replace=T))
table(d$category)
d$category = replace(d$category, "Men", "Male")
table(d$category)

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