Using if else on a dataframe across multiple columns

Question

I have a large dataset of samples with descriptors of whether the sample is viable - it looks (kind of) like this, where \'desc\' is the description column and \'blank\' ind

Answer 1

This should work. Though honestly, if the data is unusable, why not delete the rows altogether?

library(dplyr)

blanks = 
  dat %>%
  filter(desc == "blank") %>%
  select(desc)

dat %>%
  filter(desc == "sample") %>%
  bind_rows(blanks)