I have a data frame like this
df <- data.frame(id=c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5), staple_1=c("potato", "cassava","rice","fruit","coffee"), staple_2=c("cassava","beer","peanuts","rice","yams"), staple_3=c("rice","peanuts","fruit","fruit","rice"))
I also have a character vector like this
staples<-c("potato","cassava","rice","yams")
I would like to create a new variable that is the row sum of the occurrence of any of the words in the "staples" character vector. The outcome of which should look like this
df$staples<-c(3,1,1,1,2)
I have tried several approaches and nothing has worked so far. My actual dataframe is much bigger and character vector has 20 or more words in it. I'm sure there is a simple solution but that I am missing it somehow.
A simple apply
will do it.
apply(df, 1, function(x) sum(staples %in% x))
#[1] 3 1 1 1 2
df$staples <- apply(df, 1, function(x) sum(staples %in% x))
Here is a tidyverse solution.
library(tidyverse)
df <- data_frame(id = c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5),
staple_1 = c("potato", "cassava", "rice", "fruit", "coffee"),
staple_2 = c("cassava", "beer", "peanuts", "rice", "yams"),
staple_3 = c("rice", "peanuts", "fruit", "fruit", "rice"))
staples_vect <- c("potato", "cassava", "rice", "yams")
df %>%
mutate(staples = pmap_int(select(., starts_with("staple_")), ~sum(c(...) %in% staples_vect)))
It seems best to avoid using the same name as for both a global variable and a column in a dataframe when using dplyr.
Another approach is to loop through the columns, use %in%
, to create a list
of logical vector
s and add (+
) with Reduce
Reduce(`+`, lapply(df[-1], `%in%`, staples))
#[1] 3 1 1 1 2
Or with rowSums
by converting the dataset into matrix
(without the 'id' column), use %in%
to convert to logical vector
, assign the dim
to convert to same dimensions as the dimensions of df[-1]
and get the rowSums
rowSums(`dim<-`(as.matrix(df[-1]) %in% staples, dim(df[-1])))
#[1] 3 1 1 1 2