Recode multiple columns using dplyr

Question

I had a dataframe where I recoded several columns so that 999 was set to NA

dfB <-dfA %>%
  mutate(adhere = if_else(adhere==999, as.numeric(NA), adhere         


        

Answer 1

I think it is related the column type. I added mutate_if to convert all integer columns to numeric, and then set the recode value to be NA_real_. It seems working.

library(dplyr)

y <- data.frame(y1=c(1,2,999,3,4), y2=c(1L, 2L, 999L, 3L, 4L), y3=c(T,T,F,F,T))

z <- y %>%
  mutate_if(is.integer, as.numeric) %>%
  mutate_at(vars(y1:y2), funs(recode(.,`999` = NA_real_)))
z
#   y1 y2    y3
# 1  1  1  TRUE
# 2  2  2  TRUE
# 3 NA NA FALSE
# 4  3  3 FALSE
# 5  4  4  TRUE