Я думаю, это то, что вы ищете:
library(dplyr); library(tidyr)
My_dataframe %>%
## Split cat variable up into individual strings as a list column
mutate(Match_string = strsplit(cat, ',\\s+')) %>%
## unnest the list into a long/tall data frame
unnest(Match_string) %>%
## Join the lookup/key onto the tall/long data on the split column
left_join(General_df, by = c('Match_string' = 'gen_cat'))
## Days cat Match_string Main_cat
## <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
## 1 Day 1 apple, potato, milk apple Fruits
## 2 Day 1 apple, potato, milk potato Vegetable
## 3 Day 1 apple, potato, milk milk Liquids
## 4 Day 2 onion, water onion Vegetable
## 5 Day 2 onion, water water Liquids
## 6 Day 3 strawberry, potato strawberry Fruits
## 7 Day 3 strawberry, potato potato Vegetable
## 8 Day 4 straw, mango straw Object
## 9 Day 4 straw, mango mango Fruits
И базовый подход R, чтобы убедиться, что я не слишком зависим:
Match_string <- strsplit(My_dataframe$cat, ',\\s+')
data.frame(
My_dataframe[rep(seq_len(nrow(My_dataframe)), lengths(Match_string)),],
Match_string = unlist(Match_string),
Main_cat = General_df$Main_cat[match(unlist(Match_string), General_df$gen_cat)],
stringsAsFactors = FALSE,
row.names = NULL
)
## Days cat Match_string Main_cat
## 1 Day 1 apple, potato, milk apple Fruits
## 2 Day 1 apple, potato, milk potato Vegetable
## 3 Day 1 apple, potato, milk milk Liquids
## 4 Day 2 onion, water onion Vegetable
## 5 Day 2 onion, water water Liquids
## 6 Day 3 strawberry, potato strawberry Fruits
## 7 Day 3 strawberry, potato potato Vegetable
## 8 Day 4 straw, mango straw Object
## 9 Day 4 straw, mango mango Fruits
Или data.table , если вам нужна скорость и память:
library(data.table)
merge(
data.table(My_dataframe)[, Match_string := strsplit(cat, ',\\s+')][,
.(Match_string =unlist(Match_string)), by = c('Days', 'cat')],
General_df, by.x = 'Match_string', by.y = 'gen_cat',
all.x = TRUE
)[order(Days), .(Days, cat, Match_string, Main_cat)]
## Days cat Match_string Main_cat
## 1: Day 1 apple, potato, milk apple Fruits
## 2: Day 1 apple, potato, milk milk Liquids
## 3: Day 1 apple, potato, milk potato Vegetable
## 4: Day 2 onion, water onion Vegetable
## 5: Day 2 onion, water water Liquids
## 6: Day 3 strawberry, potato potato Vegetable
## 7: Day 3 strawberry, potato strawberry Fruits
## 8: Day 4 straw, mango mango Fruits
## 9: Day 4 straw, mango straw Object