Hi,
I have a character-valued vector (old_names) and want to translate
its entries whenever possible, using a dictionary (dict=data.frame).
The translation direction is dict$V3 --> dict$V2, but
some values may be undefined (NA). I suppose this is a very basic
task, but I tried in vain to make it more efficient than below.
In particular I would like to avoid the explicit (and slow) loop
Any help is very much welcome.
Thank you, TM
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new_names = old_names
m = match(old_names, dict$V3)
N = length(old_names)
for (i in 1:N) {
if (is.na(m[i])) { next ; }
nn = as.vector(dict$V2)[m[i]];
if (nn == "" ) { next; }
new_names[i] = nn
}
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