I was wondering if you kind folks could answer a question I have. In the sample data I've provided below, in column 1 I have a categorical variable, and in column 2 p-values.
x <- c(rep("A",0.1*10000),rep("B",0.2*10000),rep("C",0.65*10000),rep("D",0.05*10000))
categorical_data=as.matrix(sample(x,10000))
p_val=as.matrix(runif(10000,0,1))
combi=as.data.frame(cbind(categorical_data,p_val))
head(combi)
V1 V2
1 A 0.484525170875713
2 C 0.48046557046473
3 C 0.228440979029983
4 B 0.216991128632799
5 C 0.521497668232769
6 D 0.358560319757089
I want to now take one of the categorical variables, let's say "C", and create another variable if it is C (print 1 in column 3, or 0 if it isn't).
combi$NEWVAR[combi$V1=="C"] <-1
combi$NEWVAR[combi$V1!="C" <-0
V1 V2 NEWVAR
1 A 0.484525170875713 0
2 C 0.48046557046473 1
3 C 0.228440979029983 1
4 B 0.216991128632799 0
5 C 0.521497668232769 1
6 D 0.358560319757089 0
I'd like to do this for each of the variables in V1, and then loop over using lapply:
variables=unique(combi$V1)
loopeddata=lapply(variables,function(x){
combi$NEWVAR[combi$V1==x] <-1
combi$NEWVAR[combi$V1!=x]<-0
}
)
My output however looks like this:
[[1]]
[1] 0
[[2]]
[1] 0
[[3]]
[1] 0
[[4]]
[1] 0
My desired output would be like the table in the second block of code, but when looping over the third column would be A=1, while B,C,D=0. Then B=1, A,C,D=0 etc.
If anyone could help me out that would be very much appreciated.
How about something like this:
model.matrix(~ -1 + V1, data=combi)
Then you can cbind it to combi if you desire:
combi <- cbind(combi, model.matrix(~ -1 + V1, data=combi))