Ifelse statement on a factor level data frame

Not reproducible, ball in your court. However, in the meantime, my suggestion is to not do that. Convert to character before you alter the factor, then convert back when you are done.
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Quick question:

I am running the following code on some variables that are factors:

dbpmn$IID1new <- ifelse(as.character(dbpmn[,2]) ==
as.character(dbpmn[,(21)]), dbpmn[,20], '')

Instead of returning some value it gives me this:

c(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1))

Playing around with the code, gives me some kind of variation to it.
Is there some way to get me what I want.  The variable that its
suppose to give back is a bunch of sampleIDs.

Thanks!

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