[R] what is the faster way to search for a pattern in a few million entries data frame ?

[Bert Gunter]

Fabien:

I was unable to make any sense of your latest response (maybe I'm just
dense). If others have similar difficulties, and you fail to get a
satisfactory response, I suggest that you read and follow the posting
guide's request for a **small, reproducible example* (perhaps the
first few dozen rows of your data frame) in which you show the code
you tried and your desired result.


Cheers,
Bert

Bert Gunter

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On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Fabien Tarrade
<fabien.tarrade at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Duncan,
>>
>> Didn't you post the same question yesterday?  Perhaps nobody answered
>> because your question is unanswerable.
>
> sorry, I got a email that my message was waiting for approval and when I
> look at the forum I didn't see my message and this is why  I sent it again
> and this time I did check that the format of my message was text only. Sorry
> for the noise.
>>
>> You need to describe what the strings are like and what the patterns are
>> like if you want advice on speeding things up.
>
> my strings are 1-gram up to 5-grams (sequence of 1 work up to 5 words) and I
> am searching for the frequency in my DF of the strings starting with a
> sequence of few words.
>
> I guess these days it is standard to use DF with millions of entries so I
> was wondering how people are doing that in the faster way.
>
> Thanks
> Cheers
> Fabien
>
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