Add column which contains binned values of an integer column

Question

I have a dataframe with a few columns, one of those columns is ranks, an integer between 1 and 20. I want to create another column that contains a bin value like \"1-4\", \

Answer 1

See ?cut and specify breaks (and maybe labels).

x$bins <- cut(x$rank, breaks=c(0,4,10,15), labels=c("1-4","5-10","10-15"))
x
#   rank  name   info  bins
# 1    1 steve    red   1-4
# 2    3   joe   blue   1-4
# 3    6  john  green  5-10
# 4    3   liz yellow   1-4
# 5   15   jon   pink 10-15