For each row return the column name of the largest value

Question

I have a roster of employees, and I need to know at what department they are in most often. It is trivial to tabulate employee ID against department name, but it is trickier

Answer 1

A simple for loop can also be handy:

> df<-data.frame(V1=c(2,8,1),V2=c(7,3,5),V3=c(9,6,4))
> df
  V1 V2 V3
1  2  7  9
2  8  3  6
3  1  5  4
> df2<-data.frame()
> for (i in 1:nrow(df)){
+   df2[i,1]<-colnames(df[which.max(df[i,])])
+ }
> df2
  V1
1 V3
2 V1
3 V2