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mutate function dropping row names in r

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know how to fix this: I am using the following code to create certain groupings, but doing so changes my row names to numbers. Is there a way to avoid this, please?

table5[] <- death%>% mutate(Group = case_when(
Mean > 0 ~ "1",
Mean < 0 & Mean > -1 ~ "2",
Mean < -1 & Mean > -1.5 ~ "3",
Mean < -1.5 ~ "4"))

Thank you!

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updated by zx8754 zx8754 • written by veronico veronico

2 answers

Keeping data in rownames is against the philosophy of dplyr (tidyverse). So we need to make extra steps to preserve them, see example:

# using dplyr, need to preserve rownames
death %>% 
  rownames_to_column() %>% 
  mutate(Group = case_when(
    Mean > 0 ~ "1",
    Mean < 0 & Mean > -1 ~ "2",
    Mean < -1 & Mean > -1.5 ~ "3",
    Mean < -1.5 ~ "4")) %>% 
  column_to_rownames()

#    Mean Group
# r1   -3     4
# r2    0  <NA>
# r3    3     1
# r4   -2     4
# r5    1     1
# r6   -1  <NA>
# r7    2     1

Or just use base::cut:

# using base cut, no issues with rownames
death$Group <- cut(death$Mean, c(-Inf, -1.5, -1, 0, Inf))
death   
#    Mean       Group
# r1   -3 (-Inf,-1.5]
# r2    0      (-1,0]
# r3    3    (0, Inf]
# r4   -2 (-Inf,-1.5]
# r5    1    (0, Inf]
# r6   -1   (-1.5,-1]
# r7    2    (0, Inf]
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written by zx8754 zx8754

Thank you so much! This was super helpful!

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written by veronico veronico

If this answers you question then consider accepting as an answer.

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written by zx8754 zx8754

Can you include a short reproducible example of how your data looks like? If your row order (and number of rows) does not change you could just reassign row names from your death object

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written by b.bearmi • b.bearmi

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