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问题描述

解析 xml 文件后,我的数据如下所示:

example_df <-  
  tibble(id = "ABC",
         wage_type = "salary",
         name = c("Description","Code","Base",
                  "Description","Code","Base",
                  "Description","Code"),
         value = c("wage_element_1","51B","600",
                   "wage_element_2","51C","740",
                   "wage_element_3","51D"))

example_df 

# A tibble: 8 x 4
  id    wage_type name        value         
  <chr> <chr>     <chr>       <chr>         
1 ABC   salary    Description wage_element_1
2 ABC   salary    Code        51B           
3 ABC   salary    Base        600           
4 ABC   salary    Description wage_element_2
5 ABC   salary    Code        51C           
6 ABC   salary    Base        740           
7 ABC   salary    Description wage_element_3
8 ABC   salary    Code        51D      

大约有 1000 种不同id的,每个都有 3 个可能的值wage_type。我想将列中的值更改name为列。我曾尝试使用pivot,但我正在努力处理结果list-cols:由于并非所有人salary都有 a Base,因此生成的 list-cols 的大小不同,如下所示:

example_df <- example_df %>%
  pivot_wider(id_cols = c(id, wage_type),
              names_from = name,
              values_from = value)

example_df

# A tibble: 1 x 5
  id    wage_type Description Code      Base     
  <chr> <chr>     <list>      <list>    <list>   
1 ABC   salary    <chr [3]>   <chr [3]> <chr [2]>

因此,当我尝试取消嵌套 cols 时,它会引发错误:

example_df%>%
  unnest(cols = c(Description,Code,Base))

Error: Can't recycle `Description` (size 3) to match `Base` (size 2).

我知道这是因为 tidyr 函数不会回收,但我找不到解决这个问题的方法或base r解决我的问题的方法。我试图 根据如何在 R 中将一行拆分为多行unlist(strsplit(as.character(x))来制作一个带有解决方案的 df,但也遇到了由此产生的列长度问题。

所需的输出如下:

desired_df <- 
  tibble(
    id=c("ABC","ABC","ABC"),
    wage_type=c("salary","salary","salary"),
    Description = c("wage_element_1","wage_element_2","wage_element_3"),
    Code = c("51B","51C","51D"),
    Base = c("600","740",NA))

desired_df

id    wage_type Description    Code  Base 
  <chr> <chr>     <chr>          <chr> <chr>
1 ABC   salary    wage_element_1 51B   600  
2 ABC   salary    wage_element_2 51C   740  
3 ABC   salary    wage_element_3 51D   NA  

我会喜欢一个 tidyr 解决方案,但任何帮助将不胜感激。谢谢。

标签: rlistpivotunnest

解决方案


我会建议使用tidyverse函数的这种方法。您遇到的问题是由于函数如何管理不同的行。因此,通过创建一个像id2您这样的 id 变量,可以避免在最终重塑数据中出现列表输出:

library(tidyverse)
#Code
example_df %>% 
  arrange(name) %>%
  group_by(id,wage_type,name) %>%
  mutate(id2=1:n()) %>% ungroup() %>%
  pivot_wider(names_from = name,values_from=value) %>%
  select(-id2)

输出:

# A tibble: 3 x 5
  id    wage_type Base  Code  Description   
  <chr> <chr>     <chr> <chr> <chr>         
1 ABC   salary    600   51B   wage_element_1
2 ABC   salary    740   51C   wage_element_2
3 ABC   salary    NA    51D   wage_element_3

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