Update a data.frame using specific integers for row numbers or a vectorised filter. Also supports dplyr groups. see Examples.

# S3 method for class 'data.frame'
update(object, rows, ...)

Arguments

object

a data.frame

rows

row numbers or a logical vector

...

arguments passed on to mutate()

Examples

iris |> 
  update(3:4, Species = c("A", "B")) |> 
  head()
#>   Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
#> 1          5.1         3.5          1.4         0.2  setosa
#> 2          4.9         3.0          1.4         0.2  setosa
#> 3          4.7         3.2          1.3         0.2       A
#> 4          4.6         3.1          1.5         0.2       B
#> 5          5.0         3.6          1.4         0.2  setosa
#> 6          5.4         3.9          1.7         0.4  setosa
  
iris |> 
  update(Species == "setosa" & Sepal.Length > 5,
         Species = "something else") |> 
  head()
#>   Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width        Species
#> 1          5.1         3.5          1.4         0.2 something else
#> 2          4.9         3.0          1.4         0.2         setosa
#> 3          4.7         3.2          1.3         0.2         setosa
#> 4          4.6         3.1          1.5         0.2         setosa
#> 5          5.0         3.6          1.4         0.2         setosa
#> 6          5.4         3.9          1.7         0.4 something else
  
if (require("dplyr")) {

  # also supports dplyr groups:
  iris |> 
    group_by(Species) |>
    # update every 2nd to 4th row in group
    update(2:4, Species = "test") |> 
    # groups will be updated automatically
    count()

}
#> # A tibble: 4 × 2
#> # Groups:   Species [4]
#>   Species        n
#>   <chr>      <int>
#> 1 setosa        47
#> 2 test           9
#> 3 versicolor    47
#> 4 virginica     47