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问题描述

我有两个正在工作的数据集。第一个是:

data_1 <- tribble(
  ~shop_name, ~sub_category,
  "A",        "Blu-ray, DVDs, CD",
  "B",        "Sneakers, Make-up, Blu-ray",         
  "C",        "Camera, Optic, DVDs",
  "D",        "Flower, Notebooks, Make-up", 
)

第二个是:

data_2 <- tribble(
  ~sub_category, ~main_category,
  "Blu-ray",      "Electronic",
  "DVDs",         "Electronic",        
  "CD",           "Electronic",
  "Sneakers",     "Fashion",
  "Make-up",      "Fashion", 
  "Camera",       "Electronic",
  "Optic",        "Health", 
  "Flower",       "Home",
)

现在,我想执行左连接以在 data_1 中添加主类别。最终数据应如下所示:

merged_data <- tribble(
  ~shop_name, ~sub_category,                 ~main_category,
  "A",        "Blu-ray, DVDs, CD",            "Electronic,  Electronic,  Electronic",
  "B",        "Sneakers, Make-up, Blu-ray",   "Fashion,  Fashion,  Electronic",      
  "C",        "Camera, Optic",                "Electronic, Health",
  "D",        "Flower",                       "Home"
)

我编码如下所示:

data3 <- left_join(data_1, data_2, by = "sub_category")

但不知何故,main_category 返回了 NA。有人可以帮助我吗?提前致谢。

标签: rdplyrvlookup

解决方案


以下是两个data.table解决方案,记录在案:

代码

您可以直接将 in 中subcategory的每个字符串data_1与其对应main_category的 in匹配data_2

require(data.table); setDT(data_1); setDT(data_2)

data_1[, main_category := sapply(sub_category, function(x){

  str = unlist(strsplit(x, ', '))
  match = as.numeric(sapply(str, function(x) data_2[, which(x == sub_category)]))
  data_2[match, paste(main_category, collapse = ', ')]

})]

或者,您转换data_1为长格式并加入data_2on sub_category

data_1 = data_1[, .(sub_category = unlist(strsplit(sub_category, ', '))), keyby = shop_name] # data_1 to long format
dt_final = merge(data_1, data_2, by = 'sub_category', all = T) # Join data_1 and data_2 on sub_category
dt_final = dt_final[, lapply(.SD, function(x) paste(x, collapse = ', ')), keyby = shop_name]

结果

> data_1
   shop_name               sub_category                      main_category
1:         A          Blu-ray, DVDs, CD Electronic, Electronic, Electronic
2:         B Sneakers, Make-up, Blu-ray       Fashion, Fashion, Electronic
3:         C        Camera, Optic, DVDs     Electronic, Health, Electronic
4:         D Flower, Notebooks, Make-up                  Home, NA, Fashion

> dt_final
   shop_name               sub_category                      main_category
1:         A          Blu-ray, CD, DVDs Electronic, Electronic, Electronic
2:         B Blu-ray, Make-up, Sneakers       Electronic, Fashion, Fashion
3:         C        Camera, DVDs, Optic     Electronic, Electronic, Health
4:         D Flower, Make-up, Notebooks                  Home, Fashion, NA

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