using lapply with recode

HI,

Sorry, I didn't know that "prov" exists in different columns.

Try this:
#changed your example dataset to include one more column and reordered the columns in list elements

mylist<-list(df1=data.frame(a=seq(1,10,1), b=sample(1:15,10,replace=FALSE),prov=c(rep('QUE', 5), rep('BC', 5))), df2=data.frame(prov=c(rep('Quebec', 5), rep('AB', 5)),a=seq(1,10,1),b=sample(1:25,10,replace=FALSE)))


res<-lapply(mylist,function(x) data.frame(x[colnames(x)!="prov"],prov=recode(x$prov,"'QUE'='QC';'Quebec'='QC'")))

?res
#$df1
?# ? a? b prov
#1?? 1? 9?? QC
#2?? 2? 8?? QC
#3?? 3? 1?? QC
#4?? 4? 7?? QC
#5?? 5 15?? QC
#6?? 6 10?? BC
#7?? 7? 6?? BC
#8?? 8 11?? BC
#9?? 9? 5?? BC
#10 10 14?? BC

#$df2
?# ? a? b prov
#1?? 1 23?? QC
#2?? 2 16?? QC
#3?? 3 12?? QC
#4?? 4 14?? QC
#5?? 5 17?? QC
#6?? 6? 7?? AB
#7?? 7? 6?? AB
#8?? 8 21?? AB
#9?? 9? 5?? AB
#10 10? 1?? AB


A.K.

----- Original Message -----
From: Simon Kiss <sjkiss at gmail.com>
To: arun <smartpink111 at yahoo.com>
Cc: 
Sent: Friday, November 9, 2012 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: [R] using lapply with recode

Hi there:
None of these suggestions do the work. I tried Jim's suggestion and it returns the following:

####
$df1
? ? a prov
1?  1? QUE
2?  2? QUE

#####
$df2
? ? a?  prov
1?  1 Quebec
2?  2 Quebec

So it didn't actually do the recode.? Arun's first suggestion returned the same problem. And his second suggestion won't work because in the original data set the variable "prov" exists in different columns; I can't use the same column subscript to access each column.
Simon Kiss

HI,

Sorry, I gave the wrong answer.? res<-lapply(mylist,function(x) data.frame(a=x[,1],prov=recode(x[,2],"'QUE'='QC';'Quebec'='QC'")))
res[[1]][1:6,]
#? a prov
#1 1?  QC
#2 2?  QC
#3 3?  QC
#4 4?  QC
#5 5?  QC
#6 6?  BC
A.K.



----- Original Message -----
From: Simon Kiss <sjkiss at gmail.com>
To: r-help at r-project.org
Cc: 
Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2012 10:06 PM
Subject: [R] using lapply with recode

Hello: 
Forgive me, this is surely a simple question but I can't figure it out, having consulted the help archives and "Data Manipulation With R" (Spector).
I have a list of 11 data frames with one common variable in each (prov). I'd like to use lapply to go through and recode one particular level of that common variable. 
I can get the recode to work, but it only returns the variable that has been recoded.? I need the whole data frame with the recoded variable.

Thank you for your help. Reproducible data and my current code are below.


####Sample Data
mylist<-list(df1=data.frame(a=seq(1,10,1), prov=c(rep('QUE', 5), rep('BC', 5))), df2=data.frame(a=seq(1,10,1), prov=c(rep('Quebec', 5), rep('AB', 5))))
str(mylist)

###My current code
lapply(mylist, function(x) {
recode(x$prov, "'QUE'='QC' ; 'Quebec'='QC'")
}
)

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