changing multiple column values given a condition in dplyr

Question

I\'m looking to find a simple way to do something like the following but with dplyr, essentially just replacing the values in 3 columns with NA when the condition is met.

Answer 1

If you instead want a data.frame-wise replacement of a specific value (-99999) in any column for NA:

dat %>% mutate_all(funs(ifelse(.==-99999, NA, .)))

Answer 2

You can use mutate_at and pass the columns x1,x2,x3 to .vars parameter:

dta <- data.frame(na.ind = 1:3, x1 = 2:4, x2 = 2:4, x3 = 2:4, x4 = 2:4)
dta
#  na.ind x1 x2 x3 x4
#1      1  2  2  2  2
#2      2  3  3  3  3
#3      3  4  4  4  4

dta %>% mutate_at(.vars = c("x1", "x2", "x3"), funs(ifelse(na.ind == 1, NA, .)))
#  na.ind x1 x2 x3 x4
#1      1 NA NA NA  2
#2      2  3  3  3  3
#3      3  4  4  4  4