qdap (version 2.3.0)

speakerSplit: Break and Stretch if Multiple Persons per Cell

Description

Look for cells with multiple people and create separate rows for each person.

Usage

speakerSplit(dataframe, person.var = 1, sep = c("and", "&", ","),
  track.reps = FALSE)

Arguments

dataframe

A dataframe that contains the person variable.

person.var

The person variable to be stretched.

sep

The separator(s) to search for and break on. Default is: c("and", "&", ",")

track.reps

logical. If TRUE leaves the row names of person variable cells that were repeated and stretched.

Value

Returns an expanded dataframe with person variable stretched and accompanying rows repeated.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
DATA$person <- as.character(DATA$person)
DATA$person[c(1, 4, 6)] <- c("greg, sally, & sam", 
    "greg, sally", "sam and sally")

speakerSplit(DATA)
speakerSplit(DATA, track.reps=TRUE)

DATA$person[c(1, 4, 6)] <- c("greg_sally_sam", 
    "greg.sally", "sam; sally")

speakerSplit(DATA, sep = c(".", "_", ";"))

DATA <- qdap::DATA  #reset DATA
# }