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Hariharan S
Hariharan S

Reputation: 165

How to replace days of weeks as weekdays and weekend in r?

Data

a = c('Monday','Tuesday','Wednesday','Thursday','Friday','Saturday','Sunday')

I am trying to replace days of weeks as weekdays/weekend using below code,

a = ifelse(a==c('Monday','Tuesday','Wednesday','Thursday','Friday'),'Weekday',
           'Weekend')

However I get the below warning message with expected results

Warning message:
In a == c("Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday") :
  longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length

is my approach correct ?is there a better approach ?

when I do this on a large data frame over 40,000 rows I don't get the expected result.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 459

Answers (1)

s_baldur
s_baldur

Reputation: 33498

Your approach is almost correct.

You just need (as docendo discimus pointed out) %in% in place of ==.

ifelse(a %in% c('Monday','Tuesday','Wednesday','Thursday','Friday'), 'Weekday', 'Weekend')

And then you could slightly simplify this with:

ifelse(a %in% c('Sunday', 'Saturday'), 'Weekend', 'Weekday')

Upvotes: 1

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