如何在 R 中的数据框中合并多行的特定数据

How to combine specific data across multiple rows in a dataframe in R

我希望通过合并 1 列中的行数据单元格(其中该行中的其他列相同)来更改(连接、重塑我不确定哪个词适合这种情况)我的数据框中的数据。

基本上,我有这样的东西:

    >df
    >Person_id     System_id    Category    Type    Tag
    >1A            134          1            Chr     Question
    >1A            134          1            Chr     Answer
    >1A            134          1            Chr     Evaluation
    >1A            134          1            Chr     Overall
    >1A            134          1            Chr     Analysis
    >Z4            002          1            Chr     Question
    >Z4            002          1            Chr     Answer

让它看起来像这样:

    >Person_id     System_id    Category    Type    Tag
    >1A            134          1            Chr     Question, Answer, Evaluation, Overall, Analysis
    >Z4            002          1            Chr     Question, Answer

标签不必用逗号分隔,space 即可。 任何在何处寻找此类解决方案的想法都会有所帮助。

谢谢。

我们可以按前四列和 paste 'Tag' 元素分组

library(dplyr)
df %>%
   group_by_at(1:4) %>%
   summarise(Tag = toString(Tag))
# A tibble: 2 x 5
# Groups:   Person_id, System_id, Category [2]
#  Person_id System_id Category Type  Tag                                            
#  <chr>         <int>    <int> <chr> <chr>                                          
#1 1A              134        1 Chr   Question, Answer, Evaluation, Overall, Analysis
#2 Z4                2        1 Chr   Question, Answer    

或使用base R

aggregate(Tag ~ ., df, toString)

注意:toStringpaste(., collapse=", ")

的方便包装

数据

df <- structure(list(Person_id = c("1A", "1A", "1A", "1A", "1A", "Z4", 
"Z4"), System_id = c(134L, 134L, 134L, 134L, 134L, 2L, 2L), Category = c(1L, 
1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L), Type = c("Chr", "Chr", "Chr", "Chr", 
"Chr", "Chr", "Chr"), Tag = c("Question", "Answer", "Evaluation", 
"Overall", "Analysis", "Question", "Answer")), 
 class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, 
-7L))

您可以使用 paste0collapse = ", " 来实现此目的:

library(dplyr)
    df %>%
      group_by(Person_id, System_id, Category, Type) %>%
      summarise(Tag = paste0(Tag, collapse = ", "))

#Person_id System_id Category Type  Tag                                            
#  <chr>         <int>    <int> <chr> <chr>                                          
#1 1A              134        1 Chr   Question, Answer, Evaluation, Overall, Analysis
#2 Z4                2        1 Chr   Question, Answer