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How to simplify a case_when() inside a mutate()

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I have a data frame and I want to add a column. For that purpose, I use dplyr::mutate. However, the values of the column I want to add depend of the value of other column. I use case_when() and the problem is solved, but if there are many cases the code is uncomfortable to write (I show an example below), so I want to know if there is another option (maybe a loop) to simplify this.

The following code works:

NewTable <- Table %>% 
  dplyr::mutate(ColumnB = case_when(
               ColumnA=="2000" ~ 0,
               ColumnA=="2001" ~ 4,
               ColumnA=="2002" ~ 8,
               ColumnA=="2003" ~ 12,
               ColumnA=="2004" ~ 16,
               ColumnA=="2005" ~ 20,
               ColumnA=="2006" ~ 24,
               ColumnA=="2007" ~ 28,
               ColumnA=="2008" ~ 32,
               ColumnA=="2009" ~ 36,
               ColumnA=="2010" ~ 40,
               ColumnA=="2011" ~ 44))

How can I improve it? Thank you very much.


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