getDistinctValues

Methods to auto-expand a delimited string into a list of unique values

Implements an algorithm to effortlessly split a column in an R data frame filled with multiple values separated by delimiters. This automates the process of creating separate columns for each unique value, transforming them into binary outcomes.

Jeffery Painter

dfexpand

Automatically Expand Delimited Column Values into Multiple
Binary Columns with 'dfexpand'

getDistinctValues function

<dl> <dt>entry</dt>
<dd>A string to parse.</dd> <dt>delimiter</dt>
<dd>A single character to split the string on.</dd> <dt>trim</dt>
<dd>Boolean flag to signify if the leading and trailing whitespace should be trimmed for each value found.</dd> <dt>ignore_case</dt>
<dd>Boolean flag to indicate if the unique values extracted should ignore case differences or not.</dd></dl>

Arguments

dfexpand — getDistinctValues

<dl>

 <dt>entry</dt>
<dd>A string to parse.</dd>

 <dt>delimiter</dt>
<dd>A single character to split the string on.</dd>

 <dt>trim</dt>
<dd>Boolean flag to signify if the leading and trailing whitespace should be trimmed for each value found.</dd>

 <dt>ignore_case</dt>
<dd>Boolean flag to indicate if the unique values extracted should ignore case differences or not.</dd>

</dl>

getDistinctValues: dfexpand

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