Create new column based on 4 values in another column

Question

I want to create a new column based on 4 values in another column.

if col1=1 then col2= G;
if col1=2 then col2=H;
if col1=3 then col2=J;
if col1=4 then col2=         


        

Answer 1

There are a number of ways of doing this, but here's one.

set.seed(357)
mydf <- data.frame(col1 = sample(1:4, 10, replace = TRUE))
mydf$col2 <- rep(NA, nrow(mydf))
mydf[mydf$col1 == 1, ][, "col2"] <- "A"
mydf[mydf$col1 == 2, ][, "col2"] <- "B"
mydf[mydf$col1 == 3, ][, "col2"] <- "C"
mydf[mydf$col1 == 4, ][, "col2"] <- "D"

   col1 col2
1     1    A
2     1    A
3     2    B
4     1    A
5     3    C
6     2    B
7     4    D
8     3    C
9     4    D
10    4    D

Here's one using car's recode.

library(car)
mydf$col3 <- recode(mydf$col1, "1" = 'A', "2" = 'B', "3" = 'C', "4" = 'D')

One more from this question:

mydf$col4 <- c("A", "B", "C", "D")[mydf$col1]