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Sum column based on condition in another columns in R

I have to sum the values of a column based on an if statement. Here my code:

a <- c(1,2,3)
b <- c(2,2,3)
f <- c(1,2,3)
df <- data.frame(a,b,f)
df
for (i in 1:nrow(df)){
  if (df$a[i] == df$b[i]){
    w <- sum(df$f)
  }
}

My result is 6 while it should be 5, the sum of f[2]=2 + f[3]=3.

Thank you for help

Solution

  • We don't need a loop

    with(df, sum(f[a == b]))
#[1] 5

    Or for faster subset and sum, can use collapse

    library(collapse)
fsum(fsubset(df, a == b)$f)
#[1] 5

    In the loop, it can be changed to

    w <- 0
for(i in seq_len(nrow(df))) {
    if(df$a[i] == df$b[i]) {
        w <- w + df$f[i]
   }
 }

w
#[1] 5