[R] match and substitute two variables

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

Try the following.

for(nm in name){
     code[grep(gsub("[ [:alpha:]]+", "", nm), code)] <- nm
}
code


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas
Em 03-12-2012 15:32, irene escreveu:
> Hello,
> I have two variables (of different length and from two different data
> frames):
>
> code<- c("101001",  "1032", "102", "101001", "102", "1032");
> name<- c("101001 Alta", "102 Bassa", "1032 Media");
>
> and I would like to substitute the first variable with the  second variable
> according to their shared numerical part, thus obtaining the following
> result:
>
> code.new
> "101001 Alta"  "1032 Media" "102 Bassa""101001 Alta" "102 Bassa" "1032
> Media"
>
> I tried using: <- sapply(code, gsub, pattern="\\d+", replacement=name) but
> the replacement cannot be of length more than one, thus my output is only
> "101001 Alta" "101001 Alta"... I am not sure how to get the right answer...
>
> Thank you!
>
>
>
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