R: Replace multiple values in multiple columns of dataframes with NA

Question

I am trying to achieve something similar to this question but with multiple values that must be replaced by NA, and in large dataset.

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Answer 1

I think dplyr is very well-suited for this task.
Using replace() as suggested by @thelatemail, you could do something like this:

library("dplyr")
df <- df %>% 
  mutate_at(vars(starts_with("var")),
            funs(replace(., . %in% c(3, 4), NA)))

df
#   name foo var1 var2
# 1    a   1    1   NA
# 2    a   2    2   NA
# 3    a   3   NA   NA
# 4    b   4   NA   NA
# 5    b   5    5   NA
# 6    b   6    6   NA
# 7    c   7    7    5
# 8    c   8    8    5
# 9    c   9    9    5