Grouped by a specific variable, I want find the minimum value in the other columns and replace it

Question

#This is the example data
dataa <- data.frame(x1 = 1:5,    # Create example data
                   x2 = 6:10,
                   x3 = 11:15,
                   x4 = c(1,1,2,2,2))

#Grouped by X4, I want to replace the minimum value in X1:X2 with the minimum value/2, which #means the 1 in X1 and 3 in X1 should be replaced with 0.5 and 1.5; 6 in X2 and 8 in X2 should be #replaced with 3 and 4, respectively.

#Because I will be calculate this in a big data with numerous colomuns, thus maybe I need a FOR #LOOP? However, my codes did not work:

for (j in 1:2) 
  {
  for(i in 1:2) 
    {
    if(dataa[,i]==min(dataa[,i]) & dataa$x4==j) #Wrong
      {
      dataa[,min(dataa[,i])]<-min(dataa[,i])/(sqrt(2))
      }
     }
   }

#Can you help me? 

Answer 1

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try this:

#This is the example data
dataa <- data.frame(x1 = 1:5,    # Create example data
                   x2 = 6:10,
                   x3 = 11:15,
                   x4 = c(1,1,2,2,2))
 
#Grouped by X4, I want to replace the minimum value in X1:X2 with the minimum value/2, which #means the 1 in X1 and 3 in X1 should be replaced with 0.5 and 1.5; 6 in X2 and 8 in X2 should be #replaced with 3 and 4, respectively.
 
#Because I will be calculate this in a big data with numerous colomuns, thus maybe I need a FOR #LOOP? However, my codes did not work:


for(j in 1:2) {
  for(i in 1:2){
    tmin=min(dataa[,i][dataa$x4==j])
    dataa[,i][dataa[,i]==tmin&dataa$x4==j]<-tmin/2
  }
}
dataa

x1 x2 x3 x4
0.5 3 11 1
2.0 7 12 1
1.5 4 13 2
4.0 9 14 2
5.0 10 15 2