Adding new column with conditional values using ifelse

Question

I have a data frame with more than 400.000 observations and I\'m trying to add a column to it which its values depend on another column and sometimes multiple ones.

Answer 1

This will help you out -

# Creating a data frame 

M <- data.frame(c("A","B","C"),c(5,100,60))

names(M) <- c("Letter","Number")

#adding a column 


# if Number <= 50 Size is small, 
# if Number is between 50 and 70, Size is Medium
# if Number is Bigger than 70, Size is Big

# M$Size[M$Number <= 50] <- "Small"
# Edit: No need to subset "Small"
M$Size <- "Small"
M$Size[M$Number >50 & M$Number<70] <- "Medium"
M$Size[M$Number > 70] <- "Big"

#      Letter Number   Size
# 1      A      5      Small
# 2      B    100      Big
# 3      C     60      Medium

See this on R-Fiddle