How to round each value to two decimal places in columns if some columns are categorical in R data frame?


To round each value to two decimal places in columns if some columns are categorical in R data frame, we can follow the below steps −

  • First of all, create a data frame.

  • Then, use numcolwise function from plyr package to round each value to two decimal places in columns if some columns are categorical.

Example

Create the data frame

Let’s create a data frame as shown below −

Level<-sample(c("low","medium","high"),25,replace=TRUE)
Group<-sample(c("first","second"),25,replace=TRUE)
DV1<-rnorm(25)
DV2<-rnorm(25)
df<-data.frame(Level,Group,DV1,DV2)
df

Output

On executing, the above script generates the below output(this output will vary on your system due to randomization) −

   Level  Group     DV1         DV2
1  high   second  0.44421128 -1.64570047
2  high   first   1.43670027 -0.88397636
3  low    second -1.18341254  1.60293111
4  high   first  -0.62283226 -0.19380057
5  medium first   1.00604412  0.25331793
6  low    second  1.40551557 -0.18606767
7  high   second -2.35957053  0.67014007
8  medium first   0.80687847 -1.45673170
9  high   first  -0.54953362  0.56315219
10 medium second -0.04559434  0.21357310
11 medium second -0.31043620 -0.53737110
12 low    first   1.01480003 -0.21291348
13 low    second  0.93591125  0.31726701
14 medium second  0.15091510 -0.44046938
15 low    first  -0.12028441 -1.04923163
16 medium second  3.26870341 -0.12206452
17 low    first   0.43235968 -0.30970690
18 high   first   0.30046505 -0.50644433
19 high   first  -1.93352142 -1.06623806
20 medium first   1.00902072  0.09869907
21 medium second -0.75597488  0.03825807
22 high   second -0.45890036 -1.58441677
23 high   second -4.05130949 -0.51986084
24 medium second -0.15283662  0.30010858
25 high   second -0.97502595  0.01697664

Round to two decimal places each value in columns if some columns are categorical

Using numcolwise function from plyr package to round each value in numerical columns to two decimal places if some columns are categorical in the data frame df −

Level<-sample(c("low","medium","high"),25,replace=TRUE)
Group<-sample(c("first","second"),25,replace=TRUE)
DV1<-rnorm(25)
DV2<-rnorm(25)
df<-data.frame(Level,Group,DV1,DV2)
library(plyr)
numcolwise(round,2)(df)

Output

     DV1   DV2
1   0.44 -1.65
2   1.44 -0.88
3  -1.18  1.60
4  -0.62 -0.19
5   1.01  0.25
6   1.41 -0.19
7  -2.36  0.67
8   0.81 -1.46
9  -0.55  0.56
10 -0.05  0.21
11 -0.31 -0.54
12  1.01 -0.21
13  0.94  0.32
14  0.15 -0.44
15 -0.12 -1.05
16  3.27 -0.12
17  0.43 -0.31
18  0.30 -0.51
19 -1.93 -1.07
20  1.01  0.10
21 -0.76  0.04
22 -0.46 -1.58
23 -4.05 -0.52
24 -0.15  0.30
25 -0.98  0.02

Updated on: 09-Nov-2021

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