I know that in R for loops should be avoided and vectorized operations should be used instead.
I want to solve this with a for loop and then try to use the apply family, then also in Rcpp.
I load a dataset containing one column of passwords (alphanumeric).
Once loaded (a sample, for speed), I want to create new column with value (0,1) based on some conditions "contains_lower_chars", "contains_numbers" and so on.
Here what I tried to do, but it doesn't work - meaning each column I create has the same value.
library(tidyverse)
set.seed(123)
# load dataset from url, skip the first 16 rows
df <- read.csv('http://datashaping.com/passwords.txt', header = F, skip = 16) %>%
sample_frac(.001) %>%
rename(password = V1)
patterns = c("[a-z]","[A-Z]","[0-9]+")
df$has_lower <- 0
df$has_upper <- 0
df$has_numeric <- 0
for(i in 1:nrow(df)){
for(j in patterns){
n <- ifelse(grepl(j, df$password[i]),1,0)
}
df$has_lower[i] <- n
df$has_upper[i] <- n
df$has_numeric[i] <- n
}
Output I have in mind is:
password has_lower has_upper has_numeric
Bigmaccas 1 1 0
0127515559 0 0 1
dbqky73p 1 0 1
We can simplify things if we just name your pattern vector. For example
patterns = c(has_lower="[a-z]",
has_upper="[A-Z]",
has_numeric="[0-9]+")
for(pattern in names(patterns)) {
df[, pattern] = as.numeric(grepl(patterns[pattern], df$password))
}
Basically we just loop through each of the names, grab the regular expression corresponding to that name, then do the matching and adding the column.
A data frame is above all a list.
So, you can simply do:
df[c("has_lower", "has_upper", "has_numeric")] <-
lapply(patterns, function(pattern) grepl(pattern, df$password) + 0)
Use + 0L instead of + 0 is you want integers instead of doubles (I would recommend to do nothing and to keep logicals).
First you need to update has.lower has.upper and has.numeric within the j loop otherwise your n remains the same for this 3 cases. To do so you need to be able to loop over the names of the columns has.lower has.upper and has.numeric:
names <- c("has_lower","has_upper","has_numeric")
for(i in 1:nrow(df)){
for(j in 1:length(patterns)){
df[i,(names[j])] <- as.numeric(grepl(j, df$password[i]))
}
}
A quicker, nicer, more compact alternative using apply and the fact that grepl is already vectorized:
df[, c("has_lower","has_upper","has_numeric"):=lapply(patterns, function(x) grepl(x,df$password))]
Note (nothing to do with your question):
I advise you to use the fread function to read your dataset since it is quite large.
df = fread('http://datashaping.com/passwords.txt', header = F, skip = 16)%>%
sample_frac(.001) %>%
rename(password = V1)
I have a list of data-frames called WaFramesCosts. I want to simply subset it to show specific columns so that I can then export them. I have tried:
for (i in names(WaFramesCosts)) {
WaFramesCosts[[i]][,c("Cost_Center","Domestic_Anytime_Min_Used","Department",
"Domestic_Anytime_Min_Used")]
}
but it returns the error of
Error in `[.data.frame`(WaFramesCosts[[i]], , c("Cost_Center", "Department", :
undefined columns selected
I also tried:
for (i in seq_along(WaFramesCosts)){
WaFramesCosts[[i]][ , -which(names(WaFramesCosts[[i]]) %in% c("Cost_Center","Domestic_Anytime_Min_Used","Department",
"Domestic_Anytime_Min_Used"))]
but I get the same error. Can anyone see what I am doing wrong?
Side Note: For reference, I used this:
for (i in seq_along(WaFramesCosts)) {
t <- WaFramesCosts[[i]][ , grepl( "Domestic" , names( WaFramesCosts[[i]] ) )]
q <- subset(WaFramesCosts[[i]], select = c("Cost_Center","Domestic_Anytime_Min_Used","Department","Domestic_Anytime_Min_Used"))
WaFramesCosts[[i]] <- merge(q,t)
}
while attempting the same goal with a different approach and seemed to get closer.
Welcome back, Kootseeahknee. You are still incorrectly assuming that the last command of a for loop is implicitly returned at the end. If you want that behavior, perhaps you want lapply:
myoutput <- lapply(names(WaFramesCosts)), function(i) {
WaFramesCosts[[i]][,c("Cost_Center","Domestic_Anytime_Min_Used","Department","Domestic_Anytime_Min_Used")]
})
The undefined columns selected error tells me that your assumptions of the datasets are not correct: at least one is missing at least one of the columns. From your previous question (How to do a complex edit of columns of all data frames in a list?), I'm inferring that you want columns that match, not assuming that it is in everything. From that, you could/should be using grep or some variant:
myoutput <- lapply(names(WaFramesCosts)), function(i) {
WaFramesCosts[[i]][,grep("(Cost_Center|Domestic_Anytime_Min_Used|Department)",
colnames(WaFramesCosts)),drop=FALSE]
})
This will match column names that contain any of those strings. You can be a lot more precise by ensuring whole strings or start/end matches occur by using regular expressions. For instance, changing from (Cost|Dom) (anything that contains "Cost" or "Dom") to (^Cost|Dom) means anything that starts with "Cost" or contains "Dom"; similarly, (Cost|ment$) matches anything that contains "Cost" or ends with "ment". If, however, you always want exact matches and just need those that exist, then something like this will work:
myoutput <- lapply(names(WaFramesCosts)), function(i) {
WaFramesCosts[[i]][,intersect(c("Cost_Center","Domestic_Anytime_Min_Used","Department"),
colnames(WaFramesCosts)),drop=FALSE]
})
Note, in that last example: notice the difference between mtcars[,2] (returns a vector) and mtcars[,2,drop=FALSE] (returns a data.frame with 1 column). Defensive programming, if you think it at all possible that your filtering will return a single-column, make sure you do not inadvertently convert to a vector by appending ,drop=FALSE to your bracket-subsetting.
Based on your description, this is an example of using library dplyr to achieve combining a list of data frames for a given set of columns. This doesn't require all data frames to have identical columns (Providing your data in a reproducible example would be better)
# test data
df1 = read.table(text = "
c1 c2 c3
a 1 101
b 2 102
", header = TRUE, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
df2 = read.table(text = "
c1 c2 c3
w 11 201
x 12 202
", header = TRUE, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
# dfs is a list of data frames
dfs <- list(df1, df2)
# use dplyr::bind_rows
library(dplyr)
cols <- c("c1", "c3")
result <- bind_rows(dfs)[cols]
result
# c1 c3
# 1 a 101
# 2 b 102
# 3 w 201
# 4 x 202
I need to count mutations in the genome that occur at certain spots or rather ranges. The mutations have a genomic position (chromosome and basepair, e.g. Chr1, 10658324). The range or spot, respectively, is defined as 10000 basepairs up- and downstream (+-) of a given position in the genome. Both, positions of mutations and position of "spots" are stored in data frames.
Example:
set.seed(1)
Chr <- 1
Pos <- as.integer(runif(5000 , 0, 1e8))
mutations <- data.frame(Pos, Chr)
Chr <- 1
Pos <- as.integer(runif(50 , 0, 1e8))
spots <- data.frame(Pos, Chr)
So the question I am asking is: How many mutations are present +-10k basepairs around the positions given in "spots". (e.g. if the spot is 100k, the range would be 90k-110k)
The real data would of course contain all 24 chromosomes, but for the sake of simplicity we can focus on one chromosome for now.
The final data should contain the "spot" and the number of mutations in it's vicinity, ideally in a data frame or matrix.
Many thanks in advance for any suggestions or help!
Here's a first attempt, but I am pretty shure there is a way more elegant way of doing it.
w <- 10000 #setting range to 10k basepairs
loop <- spots$Pos #creating vector of positions to loop through
out <- data.frame(0,0)
colnames(out) <- c("Pos", "Count")
for (l in loop) {
temp <- nrow(filter(mutations, Pos>=l-w, Pos<=l+w))
temp2 <- cbind(l,temp)
colnames(temp2) <- c("Pos", "Count")
out <- rbind(out, temp2)
}
out <- out[-1,]
Using data.table foverlaps, then aggregate:
library(data.table)
#set the flank
myFlank <- 100000
#convert to ranges with flank
spotsRange <- data.table(
chr = spots$Chr,
start = spots$Pos - myFlank,
end = spots$Pos + myFlank,
posSpot = spots$Pos,
key = c("chr", "start", "end"))
#convert to ranges start end same as pos
mutationsRange <- data.table(
chr = mutations$Chr,
start = mutations$Pos,
end = mutations$Pos,
key = c("chr", "start", "end"))
#merge by overlap
res <- foverlaps(mutationsRange, spotsRange, nomatch = 0)
#count mutations
resCnt <- data.frame(table(res$posSpot))
colnames(resCnt) <- c("Pos", "MutationCount")
merge(spots, resCnt, by = "Pos")
# Pos Chr MutationCount
# 1 3439618 1 10
# 2 3549952 1 15
# 3 4375314 1 11
# 4 7337370 1 13
# ...
I'm not familiar with bed manipulations in R, so I'm going propose an answer with bedtools and someone here can try to convert to GRanges or other R bioinformatics library.
Essentially, you have two bed files, one with your spots and other with your mutations (I'm assuming a 1bp coordinate for each in the latter). In this case, you'd use closestBed to get the closest spot and the distance in bp of each mutation and then filter those that are 10KB from the spots. The code in a UNIX environment would look something like this:
# Assuming 4-column file structure (chr start end name)
closestBed -d -a mutations.bed -b spots.bed | awk '$9 <= 10000 {print}'
Where column 9 ($9) will be the distance in bp from the closest spot. Depending on how more specific you want to be, you can check the manual page at http://bedtools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/content/tools/closest.html. I'm pretty sure there's at least one bedtools-like package in R. If the functionality is similar, you can apply this exact same solution.
Hope that helps!
I have three variables in a data frame and would like to swap the 4 columns around from
"dam" "piglet" "fdate" "ssire"
to
"piglet" "ssire" "dam" "tdate"
Is there any way I can do the swapping using R?
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Baz
dfrm <- dfrm[c("piglet", "ssire", "dam", "tdate")]
OR:
dfrm <- dfrm[ , c("piglet", "ssire", "dam", "tdate")]
d <- data.frame(a=1:3, b=11:13, c=21:23)
d
# a b c
#1 1 11 21
#2 2 12 22
#3 3 13 23
d2 <- d[,c("b", "c", "a")]
d2
# b c a
#1 11 21 1
#2 12 22 2
#3 13 23 3
or you can do same thing using index:
d3 <- d[,c(2, 3, 1)]
d3
# b c a
#1 11 21 1
#2 12 22 2
#3 13 23 3
To summarise the other posts, there are three ways of changing the column order, and two ways of specifying the indexing in each method.
Given a sample data frame
dfr <- data.frame(
dam = 1:5,
piglet = runif(5),
fdate = letters[1:5],
ssire = rnorm(5)
)
Kohske's answer: You can use standard matrix-like indexing using column numbers
dfr[, c(2, 4, 1, 3)]
or using column names
dfr[, c("piglet", "ssire", "dam", "fdate")]
DWin & Gavin's answer: Data frames allow you to omit the row argument when specifying the index.
dfr[c(2, 4, 1, 3)]
dfr[c("piglet", "ssire", "dam", "fdate")]
PaulHurleyuk's answer: You can also use subset.
subset(dfr, select = c(2, 4, 1, 3))
subset(dfr, select = c(c("piglet", "ssire", "dam", "fdate")))
You can use subset's 'select' argument;
#Assume df contains "dam" "piglet" "fdate" "ssire"
newdf<-subset(df, select=c("piglet", "ssire", "dam", "tdate"))
I noticed that this is almost an 8-year old question. But for people who are starting to learn R and might stumble upon this question, like I did, you can now use a much flexible select() function from dplyr package to accomplish the swapping operation as follows.
# Install and load the dplyr package
install.packages("dplyr")
library("dplyr")
# Override the existing data frame with the desired column order
df <- select(df, piglet, ssire, dam, tdate)
This approach has following advantages:
You will have to type less as the select() does not require variable names to be enclosed within quotes.
In case your data frame has more than 4 variables, you can utilize select helper functions such as starts_with(), ends_with(), etc. to select multiple columns without having to name each column and rearrange them with much ease.
Relevance Note: In response to some users (myself included) that would like to swap columns without having to specify every column, I wrote this answer up.
TL;DR: A one-liner for numerical indices is provided herein and a function for swapping exactly 2 nominal and numerical indices at the end, neither using imports, that will correctly swap any two columns in a data frame of any size is provided. A function that allows the reassignment of an arbitrary number of columns that may cause unavoidable superfluous swaps if not used carefully is also made available (read more & get functions in Summary section)
Preliminary Solution
Suppose you have some huge (or not) data frame, DF, and you only know the indices of the two columns you want to swap, say 1 < n < m < length(DF). (Also important is that your columns are not adjacent, i.e. |n-m| > 1 which is very likely to be the case in our "huge" data frame but not necessarily for smaller ones; work-arounds for all degenerate cases are provided at the end).
Because it is huge, there are a ton of columns and you don't want to have to specify every other column by hand, or it isn't huge and you're just lazy someone with fine taste in coding, either way, this one-liner will do the trick:
DF <- DF[ c( 1:(n-1), m, (n+1):(m-1), n, (m+1):length(DF) ) ]
Each piece works like this:
1:(n-1) # This keeps every column before column `n` in place
m # This places column `m` where column `n` was
(n+1):(m-1) # This keeps every column between the two in place
n # This places column `n` where column `m` was
(m+1):length(DF) # This keeps every column after column `m` in place
Generalizing for Degenerates
Because of how the : operator works, i.e. allowing "backwards-ranges" like this,
> 10:0
[1] 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
we have to be careful about our choices and placements of n and m, hence our previous restrictions. For instance, n < m doesn't lose us any generality (one of the columns has to be before the other one if they are different), however, it means we do need to be careful about which goes where in our line of code. We can make it so that we don't have to check this condition with the following modification:
DF <- DF[ c( 1:(min(n,m)-1), max(n,m), (min(n,m)+1):(max(n,m)-1), min(n,m), (max(n,m)+1):length(DF) ) ]
We have replaced every instance of n and m with min(n,m) and max(n,m) respectively, meaning that the correct ordering for our code will be preserved even in the case that m > n.
In the cases where min(n,m) == 1, max(n,m) == length(DF), both of those at the same time, and |n-m| == 1, we we will make some unreadable less aesthetic modifications involving if\else to forget about having to check if these are the case. Versions for where you know that one of these are the case, (i.e. you are always swapping some interior column with the first column, swapping some interior column with the last column, swapping the first and last columns, or swapping two adjacent columns), you can actually express these actions more succinctly because they usually just require omitting parts from our restricted case:
# Swapping not the last column with the first column
# We just got rid of 1:(min(n,m)-1) because it would be invalid and not what we meant
# since min(n,m) == 1
# Now we just stick the other column right at the front
DF <- DF[ c( max(n,m), (min(n,m)+1):(max(n,m)-1), min(n,m), (max(n,m)+1):length(DF) ) ]
# Also equivalent since we know min(n,m) == 1, for the leftover index i
DF <- DF[ c( i, 2:(i-1), 1, (i+1):length(DF) ) ]
# Swapping not the first column with the last column
# Similarly, we just got rid of (max(n,m)+1):length(DF) because it would also be invalid
# and not what we meant since max(n,m) == length(DF)
# Now we just stick the other column right at the end
DF <- DF[ c( 1:(min(n,m)-1), max(n,m), (min(n,m)+1):(max(n,m)-1), min(n,m) ) ]
# Also equivalent since we know max(n,m) == length(DF), for the leftover index, say i
DF <- DF[ c( 1:(i-1), length(DF), (i+1):(length(DF)-1), i ) ]
# Swapping the first column with the last column
DF <- DF[ c( max(n,m), (min(n,m)+1):(max(n,m)-1), min(n,m) ) ]
# Also equivalent (for if you don't actually know the length beforehand, as assumed
# elsewhere)
DF <- DF[ c( length(DF), 2:(length(DF)-1), 1 ) ]
# Swapping two interior adjacent columns
# Here we drop the explicit swap on either side of our middle column segment
# This is actually enough because then the middle segment becomes a backwards range
# because we know that `min(n,m) + 1 = max(n,m)`
# The range is just an ordering of the two adjacent indices from largest to smallest
DF <- DF[ c( 1:(min(n,m)-1), (min(n,m)+1):(max(n,m)-1), (max(n,m)+1):length(DF) )]
"But!", I hear you saying, "What if more than one of these cases occur simultaneously, like did in the third version in the block above!?". Right, coding up versions for each case is an enormous waste of time if one wants to be able to "swap columns" in the most general sense.
Swapping any Two Columns
It will be easiest to generalize our code to cover all of the cases at the same time, because they all employ essentially the same strategy. We will use if\else to keep our code a one-liner:
DF <- DF[ if (n==m) 1:length(DF) else c( (if (min(n,m)==1) c() else 1:(min(n,m)-1) ), (if (min(n,m)+1 == max(n,m)) (min(n,m)+1):(max(n,m)-1) else c( max(n,m), (min(n,m)+1):(max(n,m)-1), min(n,m))), (if (max(n,m)==length(DF)) c() else (max(n,m)+1):length(DF) ) ) ]
That's totally unreadable and probably pretty unfriendly to anyone who might try to understand or recreate your code (including yourself), so better to box it up in a function.
# A function that swaps the `n` column and `m` column in the data frame DF
swap <- function(DF, n, m)
{
return (DF[ if (n==m) 1:length(DF) else c( (if (min(n,m)==1) c() else 1:(min(n,m)-1) ), (if (min(n,m)+1 == max(n,m)) (min(n,m)+1):(max(n,m)-1) else c( max(n,m), (min(n,m)+1):(max(n,m)-1), min(n,m))), (if (max(n,m)==length(DF)) c() else (max(n,m)+1):length(DF) ) ) ])
}
A more robust version that can also swap on column names and has semi-explanatory comments:
# Returns data frame object with columns `n` and `m` swapped
# `n` and `m` can be column names, numerical indices, or a heterogeneous pair of both
swap <- function(DF, n, m)
{
# Of course, first, we want to make sure that n != m,
# because if they do, we don't need to do anything
if (n==m) return(DF)
# Next, if either n or m is a column name, we want to get its index
# We assume that if they aren't column names, they are indices (integers)
n <- if (class(n)=="character" & is.na(suppressWarnings(as.integer(n)))) which(colnames(DF)==n) else as.integer(n)
m <- if (class(m)=="character" & is.na(supressWarnings(as.integer(m)))) which(colnames(DF)==m) else as.integer(m)
# Make sure each index is actually valid
if (!(1<=n & n<=length(DF))) stop( "`n` represents invalid index!" )
if (!(1<=m & m<=length(DF))) stop( "`m` represents invalid index!" )
# Also, for readability, lets go ahead and set which column is earlier, and which is later
earlier <- min(n,m)
later <- max(n,m)
# This constructs the first third of the indices
# These are the columns that, if any, come before the earlier column you are swapping
firstThird <- if ( earlier==1 ) c() else 1:(earlier-1)
# This constructs the last third of the the indices
# These are the columns, if any, that come after the later column you are swapping
lastThird <- if ( later==length(DF) ) c() else (later+1):length(DF)
# This checks if the columns to be swapped are adjacent and then constructs the
# secondThird accordingly
if ( earlier+1 == later )
{
# Here; the second third is a list of the two columns ordered from later to earlier
secondThird <- (earlier+1):(later-1)
}
else
{
# Here; the second third is a list of
# the later column you want to swap
# the columns in between
# and then the earlier column you want to swap
secondThird <- c( later, (earlier+1):(later-1), earlier)
}
# Now we assemble our indices and return our permutation of DF
return (DF[ c( firstThird, secondThird, lastThird ) ])
}
And, for ease of repatriation with less of the spatial cost, a comment-less version that checks index validity and can handle column names, i.e. does everything in pretty close to the smallest space it can (yes, you could vectorize, using ifelse(...), the two checks that get performed, but then you'd have to unpack the vector back into n,m or change how the final line is written):
swap <- function(DF, n, m)
{
n <- if (class(n)=="character" & is.na(suppressWarnings(as.integer(n)))) which(colnames(DF)==n) else as.integer(n)
m <- if (class(m)=="character" & is.na(suppressWarnings(as.integer(m)))) which(colnames(DF)==m) else as.integer(m)
if (!(1<=n & n<=length(DF))) stop( "`n` represents invalid index!" )
if (!(1<=m & m<=length(DF))) stop( "`m` represents invalid index!" )
return (DF[ if (n==m) 1:length(DF) else c( (if (min(n,m)==1) c() else 1:(min(n,m)-1) ), (if (min(n,m)+1 == max(n,m)) (min(n,m)+1):(max(n,m)-1) else c( max(n,m), (min(n,m)+1):(max(n,m)-1), min(n,m))), (if (max(n,m)==length(DF)) c() else (max(n,m)+1):length(DF) ) ) ])
}
Permutations (or How to Do Specifically What the Question Asked and More!)
With our swap function in tow, we can try to actually do what the original question asked. The easiest way to do this, is to build a function that utilizes the really cool power that comes with a choice of heterogeneous arguments. Create a mapping:
mapping <- data.frame( "piglet" = 1, "ssire" = 2, "dam" = 3, "tdate" = 4)
In the case of the original question, these are all of the columns in our original data frame, but we will build a function where this doesn't have to be the case:
# A function that takes two data frames, one with actual data: DF, and the other with a
# rearrangement of the columns: R
# R must be structured so that colnames(R) is a subset of colnames(DF)
# Alternatively, R can be structured so that 1 <= as.integer(colnames(R)) <= length(DF)
# Further, 1 <= R$column <= length(DF), and length(R$column) == 1
# These structural requirements on R are not checked
# This is for brevity and because most likely R has been created specifically for use with
# this function
rearrange <- function(DF, R)
{
for (col in colnames(R))
{
DF <- swap(DF, col, R[col])
}
return (DF)
}
Wait, that's it? Yup. This will swap every column name to the appropriate placement. The power for such simplicity comes from swap taking heterogeneous arguments meaning we can specify the moving column name that we want to put somewhere, and so long as we only ever try to put one column in each position (which we should), once we put that column where it belongs, it won't move again. This means that even though it seems like later swaps could undo previous placements, the heterogeneous arguments make certain that won't happen, and so additionally, the order of the columns in our mapping also doesn't matter. This is a really nice quality because it means that we aren't kicking this whole "organizing the data" issue down the road too much. You only have to be able to determine which placement you want to send each column you want to move to.
Ok, ok, there is a catch. If you don't reassign the entire data frame when you do this, then you have superfluous swaps that occur, meaning that if you re-arrange over a subset of columns that isn't "closed", i.e. not every column name has an index that is represented in the rearrangement, then other columns that you didn't explicitly say to move may get moved to other places they don't exactly belong. This can be handled by creating your mapping very carefully, or simply using numerical indices mapping to other numerical indices. In the latter case, this doesn't solve the issue, but it makes more explicit what swaps are taking place and in what order so planning the rearrangement is more explicit and thus less likely to lead to problematic superfluous swaps.
Summary
You can use the swap function that we built to successfully swap exactly two columns or the rearrange function with a "rearrangement" data frame specifying where to send each column name you want to move. In the case of the rearrange function, if any of the placements chosen for each column name are not already occupied by one of the specified columns (i.e. not in colnames(R)), then superfluous swaps can and are very likely to occur (The only instance they won't is when every superfluous swap has a partner superfluous swap that undoes it before the end. This is, as stated, very unlikely to happen by accident, but the mapping can be structured to accomplish this outcome in practice).
swap <- function(DF, n, m)
{
n <- if (class(n)=="character" & is.na(suppressWarnings(as.integer(n)))) which(colnames(DF)==n) else as.integer(n)
m <- if (class(m)=="character" & is.na(suppressWarnings(as.integer(m)))) which(colnames(DF)==m) else as.integer(m)
if (!(1<=n & n<=length(DF))) stop( "`n` represents invalid index!" )
if (!(1<=m & m<=length(DF))) stop( "`m` represents invalid index!" )
return (DF[ if (n==m) 1:length(DF) else c( (if (min(n,m)==1) c() else 1:(min(n,m)-1) ), (if (min(n,m)+1 == max(n,m)) (min(n,m)+1):(max(n,m)-1) else c( max(n,m), (min(n,m)+1):(max(n,m)-1), min(n,m))), (if (max(n,m)==length(DF)) c() else (max(n,m)+1):length(DF) ) ) ])
}
rearrange <- function(DF, R)
{
for (col in colnames(R))
{
DF <- swap(DF, col, R[col])
}
return (DF)
}
I quickly wrote a function that takes a vector v and column indexes a and b which you want to swap.
swappy = function(v,a,b){ # where v is a dataframe, a and b are the columns indexes to swap
name = deparse(substitute(v))
helpy = v[,a]
v[,a] = v[,b]
v[,b] = helpy
name1 = colnames(v)[a]
name2 = colnames(v)[b]
colnames(v)[a] = name2
colnames(v)[b] = name1
assign(name,value = v , envir =.GlobalEnv)
}
I was using the function by Khôra Willis, which is helpful. But I encountered an error. I tried to make corrections. Here is R code that finally works. The arguments n and m could either be column names or column numbers in data frame DF.
require(tidyverse)
swap <- function(DF, n, m)
{
if (class(n)=="character") n <- which(colnames(DF)==n)
if (class(m)=="character") m <- which(colnames(DF)==m)
p <- NCOL(DF)
if (!(1<=n & n<=p)) stop("`n` represents invalid index!")
if (!(1<=m & m<=p)) stop("`m` represents invalid index!")
index <- 1:p
index[n] <- m; index[m] <- n
DF0 <- DF %>% select(all_of(index))
return(DF0)
}