I think that if you want to apply a simple calculation to each element something like
df[,3:7] <- df[,3:7] + 10 would do what you want. --- DEEPANKAR BASU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a data frame with a group of variables named > b1, b2, b3, ..., b18. These variables take the value > 1, 2 or NA. For each observation, I want to do some > computation by looping over the values for the group > of variables: b1 to b18. In STATA I would do: > > forval i=1/18 { > --- use b`i' for computation ---- > } > > How can this be done in R? > > Deepankar > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, > reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.