根据 R 中的另一个数据框替换一列中的值

Replace values in one column based on another dataframe in R

我有一个超过 20k obs 的数据框。其中一列是 "city names" (df$city)。有 600 多个独特的城市名称。其中一些拼写错误。

我的数据框示例:

> df$city
[1] "BOSTN" "LOS ANGELOS" "NYC" "CHICAGOO" 
[2] "SEATTLE" "BOSTON" "NEW YORK CITY"

我创建了一个 csv 文件,其中列出了所有拼写错误的城市名称以及正确的名称。

> head(city)
           city    city_incorrect
1 BOSTON                    BOSTN
2 LOS ANGELES         LOS ANGELOS
3 NEW YORK CITY               NYC
4 CHICAGO                CHICAGOO

理想情况下,我会编写代码,根据 "city.csv" 文件替换 df$city 中的值。

注意:我最初发布了这个问题,有人建议我使用合并,我认为这不是解决我问题的最有效方法,因为我还必须包括正确拼写的 600我的 "city.csv" 文件中的城市。或者我想我需要一个额外的步骤来组合合并数据框中的两列。所以我认为根据 "city.csv".

替换 df$city 中的值可能更容易

编辑: 这是我的数据框的更详细信息

> df[1:5]
id   owner   city            state
1    AAAAA   BOSTN              MA
2    BBBBB   LOS ANGELOS        CA
3    CCCCC   NYC                NY
4    DDDDD   CHICAGOO           IL
5    EEEEE   BOSTON             MA
6    FFFFF   SEATTLE            WA
7    GGGGG   NEW YORK CITY      NY
8    HHHHH   LOS ANGELES        CA

如果我使用 merge 或 cbind,它不会像这样在我的数据框末尾创建另一列:

> merge()
id   owner   city            state     city_correct
1    AAAAA   BOSTN              MA           BOSTON
2    BBBBB   LOS ANGELOS        CA      LOS ANGELES
3    CCCCC   NYC                NY    NEW YORK CITY
4    DDDDD   CHICAGOO           IL          CHICAGO
5    EEEEE   BOSTON             MA
6    FFFFF   SEATTLE            WA
7    GGGGG   NEW YORK CITY      NY
8    HHHHH   LOS ANGELES        CA

因此拼写错误的城市将被更正,但拼写正确的城市将被排除在外。最后我想要的是一个包含所有更正城市名称的列。

base::merge() 的一种方法是在查找 table 中包含具有正确城市值的行,并将该 table 与原始数据合并。我们将"correct"个城市命名为correctedCity,合并如下:

cityText <- "id,owner,city,state
1,AAAAA,BOSTN,MA
2,BBBBB,LOS ANGELOS,CA
3,CCCCC,NYC,NY
4,DDDDD,CHICAGOO,IL
5,EEEEE,BOSTON,MA
6,FFFFF,SEATTLE,WA
7,GGGGG,NEW YORK CITY,NY
8,HHHHH,LOS ANGELES,CA"

cities <- read.csv(text = cityText, header = TRUE, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

# first, find all the distinct versions of city
library(sqldf)
distinctCities <- sqldf("select city, count(*) as count from cities group by city")

# create lookup table, and include rows for items that are already correct 
tableText <- "city,correctedCity
BOSTN,BOSTON
BOSTON,BOSTON
CHICAGOO,CHIGAGO
LOS ANGELES,LOS ANGELES
LOS ANGELOS,LOS ANGELES
NEW YORK CITY,NEW YORK CITY
NYC,NEW YORK CITY
SEATTLE,SEATTLE"

cityTable <- read.csv(text = tableText,header = TRUE,stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
corrected <- merge(cities,cityTable,by = "city")
corrected

...以及输出:

> corrected
           city id owner state correctedCity
1         BOSTN  1 AAAAA    MA        BOSTON
2        BOSTON  5 EEEEE    MA        BOSTON
3      CHICAGOO  4 DDDDD    IL       CHIGAGO
4   LOS ANGELES  8 HHHHH    CA   LOS ANGELES
5   LOS ANGELOS  2 BBBBB    CA   LOS ANGELES
6 NEW YORK CITY  7 GGGGG    NY NEW YORK CITY
7           NYC  3 CCCCC    NY NEW YORK CITY
8       SEATTLE  6 FFFFF    WA       SEATTLE
>

此时可以删除原始值并保留更正后的版本。

# rename & keep corrected version
library(dplyr)
corrected %>% select(-city) %>% rename(city = correctedCity) 

OP 的评论中指出的替代方法是创建一个查找 table,其中仅包含拼写错误的城市名称的行。在这种情况下,我们将使用 merge() 中的参数 all.x = TRUE 来保留主数据框中的所有行,并将 correctedCity 的非缺失值分配给 city

tableText <- "city,correctedCity
BOSTN,BOSTON
CHICAGOO,CHIGAGO
LOS ANGELOS,LOS ANGELES
NYC,NEW YORK CITY"

cityTable <- read.csv(text = tableText,header = TRUE,stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
corrected <- merge(cities,cityTable,by = "city",all.x = TRUE)
corrected$city[!is.na(corrected$correctedCity)] <- corrected$correctedCity[!is.na(corrected$correctedCity)]
corrected

...以及输出:

> corrected
           city id owner state correctedCity
1        BOSTON  1 AAAAA    MA        BOSTON
2        BOSTON  5 EEEEE    MA          <NA>
3       CHIGAGO  4 DDDDD    IL       CHIGAGO
4   LOS ANGELES  8 HHHHH    CA          <NA>
5   LOS ANGELES  2 BBBBB    CA   LOS ANGELES
6 NEW YORK CITY  7 GGGGG    NY          <NA>
7 NEW YORK CITY  3 CCCCC    NY NEW YORK CITY
8       SEATTLE  6 FFFFF    WA          <NA>
> 

此时,correctedCity可以从数据框中删除。

在我看来,您正在尝试做的是将一个数据框中不正确的城市名称匹配并替换为另一个数据框中的正确城市名称。如果这是正确的,那么这个 dplyr 解决方案应该有效。

数据:

包含正确和错误城市名称对的数据框:

city <- data.frame(
  city_correct = c("BOSTON", "LOS ANGELES", "NEW YORK CITY", "CHICAGO"),
  city_incorrect = c("BOSTN", "LOS ANGELOS", "NYC", "CHICAGOO"), stringsAsFactors = F)

混合了正确和错误城市名称的数据框:

set.seed(123)
df <- data.frame(town = sample(c("BOSTON", "LOS ANGELES", "NEW YORK CITY", "CHICAGO","BOSTN", 
                                 "LOS ANGELOS", "NYC", "CHICAGOO"), 20, replace = T), stringsAsFactors = F)

解决方案:

library(dplyr)
df <- left_join(df, city, by = c("town" = "city_incorrect"))
df$town_correct<-ifelse(is.na(df$city_correct), df$town, df$city_correct)
df$city_correct <- NULL

编辑:

另外,base R,解决办法是这样的:

df$town_correct <- ifelse(df$town %in% city$city_incorrect, 
                          city$city_correct[match(df$town, city$city_incorrect)], 
                          df$town[match(df$town, city$city_correct)])

结果:

df
            town  town_correct
1  NEW YORK CITY NEW YORK CITY
2            NYC NEW YORK CITY
3        CHICAGO       CHICAGO
4       CHICAGOO       CHICAGO
5       CHICAGOO       CHICAGO
6         BOSTON        BOSTON
7          BOSTN        BOSTON
8       CHICAGOO       CHICAGO
9          BOSTN        BOSTON
10       CHICAGO       CHICAGO
11      CHICAGOO       CHICAGO
12       CHICAGO       CHICAGO
13   LOS ANGELOS   LOS ANGELES
14         BOSTN        BOSTON
15        BOSTON        BOSTON
16      CHICAGOO       CHICAGO
17   LOS ANGELES   LOS ANGELES
18        BOSTON        BOSTON
19 NEW YORK CITY NEW YORK CITY
20      CHICAGOO       CHICAGO