mhweber/Recode_PatMatch.R

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A reminder snippet on how to recode a data frame variable based on pattern matching another variable in the same data frame

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Recode_PatMatch.R

	x = c("AA","BB","A:B", "CC","C:A")
	df = data.frame("ID" = x)
	df
	df$colons[grep(":", df$ID)] ='yes'
	df$colons[is.na(df$colons)] ='no'
	df

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