Case when in R using case_when() Dplyr – case_when in R

Case when in R can be executed with case_when() function in dplyr package. Dplyr package is provided with case_when() function which is similar to case when statement in SQL.

We will be using iris data to depict the example of case_when() function.

library(dplyr)

mydata2 <-iris 
head(mydata2)

iris data will be looking like

case when statement in R dplyr 1

We will be creating additional variable species_new using mutate function and case when statement.

mydata2 %>% mutate(species_new = case_when(is.na(Species) ~ "missing",
                                           Species=="setosa" ~ "setosa_new",
                                           Species=="versicolor" ~ "versicolor_new",
                                           Species=="virginica" ~ "virginica_new",
                                           TRUE ~ "others"))

you can use variables directly within case_when() wrapper.
TRUE equivalent to ELSE statement .

So the snapshot of resultant data frame will be

case when statement in R dplyr 2

NOTE: Make sure you set is.na() condition at the beginning of R case_when to handle the missing values.