[R] a difficult situation, how to do this using base function.

[Stephen HonKit Wong]

Hello,

I have a following dataframe with many rows.
data.frame(match.start=c(5,10,100,200),range.coordinates=c("1000-1050","1500-1555","5000-5050,6000-6180","100-150,200-260,600-900"))

match.start       range.coordinates
           5               1000-1050
          10               1500-1555
         100               5000-5050,6000-6180
         200              100-150,200-260,600-900

I want to test for each row element in column "match.start" (e.g. 100 on
3rd row) if it is less than the accumulated range (e.g. for 5000-5050,
6000-6180, the accumulated range is: 50, 230), then update the match start
as 6000+ (100-50) = 6050. The result is put on third column.

match.start         range.coordinates   match.start.updated
          5                   1000-1050                                 1005
         10                 1500-1555                                  1510
        100       5000-5050,6000-6180                         6050
        200   100-150,200-260,600-900                        690

Many thanks.

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