How to make a new variable that assigns a numeric variable to intervals of 1000 units. R

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In a dataframe I have the variable position that ranges from 0 to 2.7M.

I want to create a new variable bin that takes the value of position and it assigns it to intervals of 1000:

  • From 1 to 1000 -> 1000
  • From 1001 to 2000 -> 2000
  • From 2001 to 3000 -> 3000
  • etc
position bin
128 1000
333 1000
2900 3000
4444 5000

I have looked at previous questions and couldn't find a solution.

Thanks in advance.

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3 Answers

You could use cut:

library(dplyr)

bin_size <- 1000
bin_seq <- seq(0, ceiling(max(df$position)/bin_size)*bin_size, bin_size)

df %>%
  mutate(bin = cut(
    position,
    bin_seq,
    include.lowest = TRUE,
    labels = bin_seq[-1]
  ))

Output

  position  bin
1      128 1000
2      333 1000
3     2900 3000
4     4444 5000

Data

df <-structure(list(position = c(128L, 333L, 2900L, 4444L)), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, 
-4L))
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You can do

bin <- 1000 * ceiling(position / 1000)
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You could use

df$bin_2 <- (df$position %/% 1000 + 1) * 1000
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