Displaying .table data based on another data.table
I have two data
( .xlsx
), DT1
and DT2
. I want to create a new column newcol
in DT1
based on the original column in DT1
, mapping to columns in DT2
.
I know this is ambiguous, so I'll explain more here:
First, here are my two data.
DT1
code type
AH1 AM
AS5 AM
NMR AM
TOS AM
IP AD
CC ADCE
CA Wa
DT2
code year month
AH1 2011 2
AH1 2011 5
AS5 2012 7
AS5 2012 6
AS5 2013 3
CC 2014 6
CA 2016 11
Second, the DT2
columns year
and are month
irrelevant in this matter. We don't need to explain this.
Third, I want:
DT2
code year month newcol
AH1 2011 2 AM
AH1 2011 5 AM
AS5 2012 7 AM
AS5 2012 6 AM
AS5 2013 3 AM
CC 2014 6 ADCE
CA 2016 11 Wa
newcol
c DT2
is generated from the data DT1
.
I've seen the syntax how DT2[DT1, ...]
, but I forgot it. Any help?
Data
DT1 <- " code type
1: AH1 AM
2: AS5 AM
3: NMR AM
4: TOS AM
5: IP AD
6: CC ADCE
7: CA Wa
"
DT1 <- read.table(text=DT1, header = T)
DT1 <- as.data.table(DT1)
DT2 <- "code year month
1: AH1 2011 2
2: AH1 2011 5
3: AS5 2012 7
4: AS5 2012 6
5: AS5 2013 3
6: CC 2014 6
7: CA 2016 11
"
DT2 <- read.table(text=DT2, header =T)
DT2 <- as.data.table(DT2)
PS Also, there is a function in excel VLOOKUP
to solve it:
# Take first obs. as an example.
DT2
code year month
AH1 2011 2
# newcol is column D. So in D2, we type:
=VLOOKUP(TRIM(A1), 'DT1'!$A$2:$A$8, 2, FALSE)
UPDATE based on the comment in @ akrun's answer.
My original DT1
has 86 total. and DT2
has 451125 vol. I use @akrun's answer and DT2 is shortened to 192409. So strange. The DT2 $ code does not contain any NA. I do not know why.
length(unique(DT1$code1))
[1] 86
length(unique(DT2$code))
[1] 39
table(DT1$code1)
AHI AHI002 AHI004 AHI005 AHS002 AHS003 AHS004 AHS005 AMR AMR002 AMR003 AMRHI3 CARD CCRU HPA01 HWPA1 HWPA1T IOA IOA01
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
IOA01T IPA010 IPA011 IPA012 IPA013 IPA014 IPACC3 IPACC4 IPACC5 IPACC6 IPAR IPAR2 IPARK2 IPARKI NAHI NAHI2 NAMR NAMR2 NCC
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
NCC2 NCC5 NCC5T NNAHI NNAHI2 NNAMR NNAMR2 PL PL2 PLFI REI SPA SPA001 SPA3 TADS TADS2 TAHI TAHI2 TAHS
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
TAHS2 TAMB TAMB2 TAMD TAMD2 TAMR TAMR2 TBURN TBURN2 TCCR TFPS TFS TFS2 THE THIBN THIBN2 TICU TICU2 TIPA
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
TIPA2 TIPAK TIPAK2 TNCC TOS TOS2 TSAO TSAO2 TSPA WED
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
table(DT2$code)
AHI002 AHI005 AHS002 AHS005 AMR AMR003 Card HPA01 HWPA1 HWPA1T IOA01 IOA01T IPA011 IPA012 IPA013 IPA014 IPACC3 IPACC4 IPACC5
19408 12215 34184 12226 19408 12215 19408 7344 9198 405 9198 405 12215 5137 1148 2853 31703 9198 7878
IPACC6 IPAR IPAR2 IPARK2 IPARKI NAHI NAHI2 NAMR NAMR2 NCC2 NCC5 NCC5T NNAHI NNAHI2 NNAMR NNAMR2 PL PL2 SPA
9668 41909 9643 2362 2967 10018 3589 10018 3589 7878 2845 536 14776 8104 14754 8118 18624 8302 40856
SPA3
6823
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You can use merge
in R base:
DT2 <- (merge(DT1, DT2, by = 'code'))
Note. It also sorts it by column 'code'
.
You can also use the package plyr
:
DT2 <- plyr::join(DT2, DT1, by = "code")
Since you are interested in using the package data.table
:
library(data.table)
DT2 <- data.table(DT2, key='code')
DT1 <- data.table(DT1, key='code')
DT2[DT1]
Or a qdap
package:
DT2$type <- qdap::lookup(DT2$code, DT1)
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