... and here is a non-dplyr rsolution:
> z <-gsub("[^[:digit:]]"," ",dd$Lower)
> sapply(strsplit(z," +"),function(x)sum(as.numeric(x),na.rm=TRUE))
[1] 105 67 60 100 80
Cheers,
Bert
Bert Gunter
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On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Richard M. Heiberger <r...@temple.edu> wrote:
> ## Continuing with your data
>
> AA <- stringr::str_extract_all(dd[[2]],"[[:digit:]]+")
> BB <- lapply(AA, as.numeric)
> ## I think you are looking for one of the following two expressions
> sum(unlist(BB))
> sapply(BB, sum)
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Burhan ul haq <ulh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I request help with the following:
>>
>> INPUT: A data frame where column "Lower" is a character containing numeric
>> values (different count or occurrences of numeric values in each row,
>> mostly 2)
>>
>>> dput(dd)
>> structure(list(State = c("Alabama", "Alaska", "Arizona", "Arkansas",
>> "California"), Lower = c("R 72–33", "R/Coalition 27(23 R, 4 D)–12 D, 1
>> Ind.",
>> "R 36–24", "R 64–35, 1 Ind.", "D 52–28"), Upper = c("R 26–8, 1 Ind.",
>> "R/Coalition 15(14 R, 1 D)–5 D", "R 18–12", "R 24–11", "D 26–14"
>> )), .Names = c("State", "Lower", "Upper"), row.names = c(NA,
>> 5L), class = "data.frame")
>>
>> PROBLEM: Need to extract all numeric values and sum them. There are few
>> exceptions like row2. But these can be ignored and will be fixed manually
>>
>> SOLUTION SO FAR:
>> str_extract_all(dd[[2]],"[[:digit:]]+"), returns a list of numbers as
>> character. I am unable to unlist it, because it mixes them all together, ...
>>
>> And if I may add, is there a "dplyr" way of doing it ...
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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>>
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