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fill a column based on another one in R

I have the following dt:

col1 col2.
A 1
A 2
B 3

What I want is :

col1 col2.
A 1
A 1
B 2

I tried many things but it didn’t work for me? Does anyone have an idea how to do it?

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>Solution :

We may use match

df1$col2 <- match(df1$col1, unique(df1$col1))
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