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How to pipe to if statements in R

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I have data from my Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, and LinkedIn accounts that I'd like to analyze. I have a data frame similar to the following:

df <- data.frame(tw_likes = c(5,4,6,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA), 
                 tw_comments = c(3,5,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA), 
                 fb_likes = c(NA,NA,NA,7,4,8,NA,NA,NA), 
                 fb_comments = c(NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,7,NA,NA,NA), 
                 ig_likes = c(NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,5), 
                 ig_comments = c(NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,43,4,2))

what I want to do is create an additional column Platform that will take the values of "Twitter, "Facebook, or "Instagram" based on the above dataframe.

My tactic has been the following:

for(i in 1:nrow(df){
     if(!is.na(df$tw_likes[i]) | !is.na(df$tw_comments[i])){
          df$Platform[i] <- "Twitter"
     }
     else if(!is.na(df$fb_likes[i]) | !is.na(df$fb_comments[i])){
          df$Platform[i] <- "Facebook"
     }
     else if(!is.na(df$ig_likes[i]) | !is.na(df$ig_comments[i])){
          df$Platform[i] <- "Instagram"
     }
}

This does work, but becomes messier to read. In reality I have more columns and more social media platforms to deal with, so is there a way to pipe the data so I at least don't have to write df$ so many times?

Another thought I had was if I couldn't remove the df$s, could I combine the !is.na() statements to be one statement per if statement?


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