[R] Consolidate column contents of equally "named" columns

Bert Gunter gunter.berton at gene.com
Sun Apr 29 16:48:31 CEST 2012


I believe the regularity of the problem allows a (to me, anyway)
simpler procedure.

td <-  t(apply(d,2, na.omit))
data.frame(split(as.numeric(td[,-1]),td[,1]))


-- Bert

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Rui Barradas <ruipbarradas at sapo.pt> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This solution is not very pretty but it works.
>
> nms <- unlist(d[1, ])
> nm <- unique(nms)
> dd <- na.exclude(sapply(nm, function(jj){
>                inx <- nms %in% jj
>                do.call(rbind, as.list(d[, inx]))
>        }))
> dd <- dd[ dd[ , nm[1]] != nm[1], ]
> dd <- data.frame(apply(dd, 2, as.integer))
> dd
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Rui Barradas
>
>
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