Hi, I know I can do this with a for loop with strsplit and grep, but is there more efficient way?
Given a data dataframe (input) and a category column (lst), > input item loc 1 item 1.1: earnings <sep> item 1.2: w2 <sep> shelf 1 2 item 1.3: deductions drawer 1 3 item 1.1: earnings shelf 2 > lst item cat 1 item 1.1 A 2 item 1.2 B 3 item 1.3 C how to get a result frame like > result item loc cat 1 item 1.1: earnings <sep> item 1.2: w2 <sep> shelf 1 AB 2 item 1.3: deductions drawer 1 C 3 item 1.1: earnings shelf 2 A Thanks, Richard [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.