separate_rows: Split rows based on a delimited string column

In qPharmetra/PMDatR: Pharmacometric Data Management in R

Split rows based on a delimited string column

Description

Split rows based on a delimited string column

Usage

separate_rows(df, col, sep = ", ")

Arguments

df	A dataframe
col	The column to split on
sep	The separator characters

Details

This function splits a dataframe's rows based on delimited values in a column. For instance, a row named "Children" with "Tommy, Gillian, Betsy" would be duplicated three times with the children listed separately on each row.

Value

A dataframe

Examples

library(dplyr)
data_frame(Parent=c("Homer, Marge", "Lorelai", "Peter, Lois"), Child=c("Bart, Lisa, Maggie",
"Rory", "Chris, Meg, Stewey")) %>% separate_rows("Parent") %>% separate_rows("Child")

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