Evaluate different logical conditions from string for each row

Question

I have a data.frame like this:

  value     condition
1  0.46   value > 0.5
2  0.96 value == 0.79
3  0.45 value <= 0.65
4  0.68 value == 0.         


        

Answer 1

One straightforward and easy solution would be using eval(parse...

library(dplyr)

df %>%
  rowwise() %>%
  mutate(goal = eval(parse(text = condition)))

# A tibble: 9 x 3
#  value condition     goal 
#            
#1 0.46  value > 0.5   FALSE
#2 0.96  value == 0.79 FALSE
#3 0.45  value <= 0.65 TRUE 
#4 0.68  value == 0.88 FALSE
#5 0.570 value < 0.9   TRUE 
#6 0.1   value > 0.01  TRUE 
#7 0.9   value >= 0.6  TRUE 
#8 0.25  value < 0.91  TRUE 
#9 0.04  value > 0.2   FALSE

However, I would recommend reading some posts before using it.