r - Using dplyr to conditionally replace values in a column

Question

I have an example data set with a column that reads somewhat like this:

Candy
Sanitizer
Candy
Water
Cake
Candy
Ice Cream
Gum
Candy
Coffee

What I'd like to do is replace it into just two factors - "Candy" and "Non-Candy". I can do this with Python/Pandas, but can't seem to figure out a dplyr based solution. Thank you!

Answer 1

In dplyr and tidyr

dat %>% 
    mutate(var = replace(var, var != "Candy", "Not Candy"))

Significantly faster than the ifelse approaches. Code to create the initial dataframe can be as below:

library(dplyr)
dat <- as_data_frame(c("Candy","Sanitizer","Candy","Water","Cake","Candy","Ice Cream","Gum","Candy","Coffee"))
colnames(dat) <- "var"