Replace logical values (TRUE / FALSE) with numeric (1 / 0)

Question

I am exporting data from R with the command:

write.table(output,file = "data.raw", na "-9999", sep = "\\t", row.names = FALSE, c         


        

Answer 1

For a data.frame, you could convert all logical columns to numeric with:

# The data
set.seed(144)
dat <- data.frame(V1=1:100,V2=rnorm(100)>0)
dat$V3 <- dat$V2 == 1
head(dat)
#   V1    V2    V3
# 1  1 FALSE FALSE
# 2  2  TRUE  TRUE
# 3  3 FALSE FALSE
# 4  4 FALSE FALSE
# 5  5 FALSE FALSE
# 6  6  TRUE  TRUE

# Convert all to numeric
cols <- sapply(dat, is.logical)
dat[,cols] <- lapply(dat[,cols], as.numeric)
head(dat)
#   V1 V2 V3
# 1  1  0  0
# 2  2  1  1
# 3  3  0  0
# 4  4  0  0
# 5  5  0  0
# 6  6  1  1

In data.table syntax:

# Data
set.seed(144)
DT = data.table(cbind(1:100,rnorm(100)>0))
DT[,V3 := V2 == 1]
DT[,V4 := FALSE]
head(DT)
#    V1 V2    V3    V4
# 1:  1  0 FALSE FALSE
# 2:  2  1  TRUE FALSE
# 3:  3  0 FALSE FALSE
# 4:  4  0 FALSE FALSE
# 5:  5  0 FALSE FALSE
# 6:  6  1  TRUE FALSE

# Converting
(to.replace <- names(which(sapply(DT, is.logical))))
# [1] "V3" "V4"
for (var in to.replace) DT[, (var):= as.numeric(get(var))]
head(DT)
#    V1 V2 V3 V4
# 1:  1  0  0  0
# 2:  2  1  1  0
# 3:  3  0  0  0
# 4:  4  0  0  0
# 5:  5  0  0  0
# 6:  6  1  1  0