[R] more efficient code possible?

[Tord Snall]

Dear all,

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to make this code more efficient?

I have a large data frame that I want to merge with another data frame 

b.art.temp<- b.art[, c("BalteSFyndID", "RUBINKOD")]

I first add an indicator column for each RUBINKOD:

b.art.temp$anas.hel<- ifelse(b.art.temp$RUBINKOD=="ANAS.HEL", 1, 0)
b.art.temp$ant.pulv<- ifelse(b.art.temp$RUBINKOD=="ANT.PULV", 1, 0)
b.art.temp$anti.cur<- ifelse(b.art.temp$RUBINKOD=="ANTI.CUR", 1, 0)
...

# and then merge
b.substart<- merge(b.subst, b.art.temp[b.art.temp$anas.hel == 1,
c("BalteSFyndID", "anas.hel")], by="BalteSFyndID", all.x=T)

b.substart<- merge(b.substart, b.art.temp[b.art.temp$ant.pulv == 1,
c("BalteSFyndID", "ant.pulv")], by="BalteSFyndID", all.x=T)

b.substart<- merge(b.substart, b.art.temp[b.art.temp$anti.cur == 1,
c("BalteSFyndID", "anti.cur")], by="BalteSFyndID", all.x=T)
...

But there are many levels of RUBINKOD
nlevels(b.art.temp$RUBINKOD)
[1]  61

and I therefore wonder if there is any quicker way of doing it than
repeating the abouve lines 58 more times


Thanks in advance!


Sincerely,
Tord

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Tord Snäll
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