ParseWords: Parse a character column into several columns

In MattKelliher-Gibson/prepr: Functions to Prepare Data for Analysis

Description

ParseWords separates one character column (usually names) into several columns with sequential names. Originally designed for Parsing Name Fields.

Usage

ParseWords(data, total_words = 5, name_field = NULL, var_name = "word")

Arguments

data	data.frame
total_words	integer total new columns
name_field	string of column with names
var.name	string for prefix to new columns names

Value

data.frame of the same class as data

Examples

 options(stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
 x <- data.frame(text = c("Mike t Martin", "John D Rockefeller", "Daniel Tiger", "jean claude van damme"))

 # Seperate into 3 columns: name1, name2, name3
 ParseWords(x, 3, "text", "name")

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