splitstackshape (version 1.2.0)

concat.split.expanded: Split numeric concatenated values into their corresponding column position

Description

"Expand" concatenated numeric values to their relevant position in a data.frame.

Usage

concat.split.expanded(data, split.col, sep = ",",
    mode = NULL, drop = FALSE, fixed = FALSE, fill = NA)

Arguments

data

The source data.frame.

split.col

The variable that needs to be split (either name or index position).

sep

The character separating each value. Can also be a regular expression.

mode

Can be either "binary" (where presence of a number in a given column is converted to "1") or "value" (where the value is retained and not recoded to "1").

drop

Logical. Should the original variable be dropped? Defaults to FALSE.

fixed

Used for strsplit for allowing regular expressions to be used.

fill

Desired "fill" value. Defaults to NA.

Value

• A data.frame

See Also

concat.split, concat.split.list, concat.split.compact, concat.split.multiple, binaryMat, valueMat

Examples

temp <- head(concat.test)
concat.split.expanded(temp, "Likes")
concat.split.expanded(temp, 4, ";")
concat.split.expanded(temp, 4, ";", mode = "value", drop = TRUE)

## Note the warning
concat.split.expanded(temp, "Siblings", drop = TRUE)

rm(temp)