Mutate multiple columns in a dataframe

Question

I have a data set that looks like this.

bankname    bankid  year    totass  cash    bond    loans
Bank A      1       1881    244789  7250    20218   29513
B         


        

Answer 1

Apply and cbind

cbind(bankdata,apply(bankdata[,5:7],2, function(x) x/bankdata$totass))
names(bankdata)[8:10] <- paste0(names(bankdata)[5:7], 'toAssest’)

> bankdata
  bankname bankid year   totass   cash   bond loans cashtoAssest bondtoAssest loanstoAssest
1   Bank A      1 1881   244789   7250  20218 29513   0.02961734  0.082593581    0.12056506
2   Bank B      2 1881   195755  10243 185151  2800   0.05232561  0.945830247    0.01430359
3   Bank C      3 1881   107736  13357 177612    NA   0.12397899  1.648585431            NA
4   Bank D      4 1881   170600  35000  20000  5000   0.20515826  0.117233294    0.02930832
5   Bank E      5 1881 32000000 351266 314012    NA   0.01097706  0.009812875            NA