I have a dataframe which includes grades of students per course. These grades, however, are in A-F format and need to be transformed to numerical grades (10-1). To do so, I generated random numbers that represent these A-F values.
A <- rnorm(nrow(Student_Data), 9.45, 0.2)
B <- rnorm(nrow(Student_Data), 7.95, 0.2)
C <- rnorm(nrow(Student_Data), 6.25, 0.2)
D <- rnorm(nrow(Student_Data), 4.75, 0.2)
F <- rnorm(nrow(Student_Data), 2, 0.2)
I also created a function which allows to replace the letters with numbers
courseGradesNumeric <- data.frame(lapply(courseGrades, function(x) {gsub("A", sample(A, 1), gsub("B", sample(B, 1), gsub("C", sample(C, 1), gsub("D", sample(D, 1), gsub("F", sample(F, 1), x)))))}))
This works quite well but the problem is that if there is an "A"
(or any other letter) in a column, then this A in this specific column is replaced by a random number from vector A
that is the same across the entire column.
To illustrate:
Current dataframe (ignore the NA's for now)
Student_ID ABC1000_Grade ABC1003_Grade
1 9000006 A B
2 9000014 A A
3 9000028 B C
4 9000045 <NA> <NA>
5 9000080 C <NA>
6 9000091 <NA> <NA>
The problem:
Student_ID ABC1000_Grade ABC1003_Grade
1 9000006 9.335523 8.231295
2 9000014 9.335523 9.462468
3 9000028 7.972959 6.394259
4 9000045 <NA> <NA>
5 9000080 6.257297 <NA>
6 9000091 <NA> <NA>
In the ABC1000_Grade column, the A was replaced by the same random number that was generated in an earlier step.
How can I make sure that all replaced values are different random numbers? Thus, the preferred result should be:
Student_ID ABC1000_Grade ABC1003_Grade
1 9000006 9.510445 8.231295
2 9000014 9.335523 9.462468
3 9000028 7.972959 6.394259
4 9000045 <NA> <NA>
5 9000080 6.257297 <NA>
6 9000091 <NA> <NA>
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