qdap 2.2.0

Break and Stretch if Multiple Persons per Cell

Usage

speakerSplit(dataframe, person.var = 1, sep = c("and", "&", ","), track.reps = FALSE)

Arguments

dataframe
A dataframe that contains the person variable.
person.var
The person variable to be stretched.
sep
The separator(s) to search for and break on. Default is: c("and", "&", ",")
track.reps
logical. If TRUE leaves the row names of person variable cells that were repeated and stretched.

Break and Stretch if Multiple Persons per Cell

Value

Returns an expanded dataframe with person variable stretched and accompanying rows repeated.

Description

Look for cells with multiple people and create separate rows for each person.

Examples

## <strong>Not run</strong>: 
# DATA$person <- as.character(DATA$person)
# DATA$person[c(1, 4, 6)] <- c("greg, sally, & sam",
#     "greg, sally", "sam and sally")
# 
# speakerSplit(DATA)
# speakerSplit(DATA, track.reps=TRUE)
# 
# DATA$person[c(1, 4, 6)] <- c("greg_sally_sam",
#     "greg.sally", "sam; sally")
# 
# speakerSplit(DATA, sep = c(".", "_", ";"))
# 
# DATA <- qdap::DATA  #reset DATA
# ## <strong>End(Not run)</strong>