separate_wider_delim: Separate a character column into multiple columns

In tidytable: Tidy Interface to 'data.table'

Separate a character column into multiple columns

Description

Separates a single column into multiple columns

Usage

separate_wider_delim(
  .df,
  cols,
  delim,
  ...,
  names = NULL,
  names_sep = NULL,
  names_repair = "check_unique",
  too_few = c("align_start", "error"),
  too_many = c("drop", "error"),
  cols_remove = TRUE
)

Arguments

.df	A data frame
cols	Columns to separate
delim	Delimiter to separate on
...	These dots are for future extensions and must be empty.
names	New column names to separate into
names_sep	Names separator
names_repair	Treatment of duplicate names. See ?vctrs::vec_as_names for options/details.
too_few	What to do when too few column names are supplied
too_many	What to do when too many column names are supplied
cols_remove	Should old columns be removed

Examples

df <- tidytable(x = c("a", "a_b", "a_b", NA))

df %>%
  separate_wider_delim(x, delim = "_", names = c("left", "right"))

df %>%
  separate_wider_delim(x, delim = "_", names_sep = "")

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