[R] the "union" of several data frame rows
Henrique Dallazuanna
wwwhsd at gmail.com
Fri Feb 1 20:22:33 CET 2008
Perhaps:
data <- data.frame(key, row.names=1)
names(data) <- paste("q", 1:6, sep="")
apply(data, 2, function(x)unique(x)[unique(x) != " "])
On 01/02/2008, Scot W. McNary <smcnary at charm.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a question about how to obtain the union of several data frame
> rows. I'm trying to create a common key for several tests composed of
> different items. Here is a small scale version of the problem. These
> are keys for 4 different tests, not all mutually exclusive:
>
> id q1 q2 q3 q4 q5 q6
> 1 A C
> 2 B D
> 3 A D B
> 4 C D B D
>
> I would like to create a single key all test versions, the "union" of
> the above:
>
> id q1 q2 q3 q4 q5 q6
> key A C D B B D
>
>
> Here is what I have (unsuccessfully) tried so far:
>
> > key <-
> + matrix(c("1", "A", "C", " ", " ", " ", " ",
> + "2", " ", " ", " ", " ", "B", "D",
> + "3", "A", " ", "D", "B", " ", " ",
> + "4", " ", "C", "D", " ", "B", "D"),
> + byrow=TRUE, ncol = 7)
> >
> > k1 <- key[1, 2:7]
> > k2 <- key[2, 2:7]
> > k3 <- key[3, 2:7]
> > k4 <- key[4, 2:7]
> >
> > itemid <- c("q1", "q2", "q3", "q4", "q5", "q6")
> >
> > k1 <- cbind(itemid, k1)
> > k2 <- cbind(itemid, k2)
> > k3 <- cbind(itemid, k3)
> > k4 <- cbind(itemid, k4)
> >
> > tmp <- merge(k1, k2, by = "itemid")
> > tmp <- merge(tmp, k3, by = "itemid")
> > tmp <- merge(tmp, k4, by = "itemid")
> >
> > t(tmp)
> [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6]
> itemid "q1" "q2" "q3" "q4" "q5" "q6"
> k1 "A" "C" " " " " " " " "
> k2 " " " " " " " " "B" "D"
> k3 "A" " " "D" "B" " " " "
> k4 " " "C" "D" " " "B" "D"
>
> The actual problem involves 300 or so items instead of 6 and 10
> different keys instead of four. Any suggestions welcome.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Scot McNary
>
> > version
> _
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch i386
> os mingw32
> system i386, mingw32
> status
> major 2
> minor 6.1
> year 2007
> month 11
> day 26
> svn rev 43537
> language R
> version.string R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26)
>
>
> --
> Scot McNary
> smcnary at charm dot net
>
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