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user2014
user2014

Reputation: 171

Substitute a column data of one data frame with a column data in other data frame in R

My data frame df1 is as below

    A   B
#1  1   3,4
#2  2   5
#3  3   4,1
#4  4   1,3
#5  5   2

i want to replace A and B column numbers with ID's from below data frame DF2

    ID   DATA
#1  101  data1
#2  503  data2
#3  890  data3
#4  1164  data4
#5  5367  data5

Instead of 1,2,3 ... DF1 should contain data as below ( expected output is just replace the numbers listed in A,B columns with corresponding ID's)

     A   B
#1  101 890,1164
#2  503 5367
#3  890 1164,101
#4  1164 101,890
#5  5367  503

Is there any way to achieve this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 83

Answers (1)

HubertL
HubertL

Reputation: 19544

For the first column it is straight forward:

df1$A <- df2[df1$A,"ID"]

For the second column you have to use strsplit and paste because of the multi value column:

df1$B <- sapply(df1$B, function(s) 
    paste( 
       df2[strsplit(as.character(s),",")[[1]],"ID"],
       collapse=","))

df1
     A        B
1  101 890,1164
2  503     5367
3  890 1164,101
4 1164  101,890
5 5367      503

Upvotes: 3

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