Concatenating two text columns in dplyr

Question

My data look like this:

round <- c(rep(\"A\", 3), rep(\"B\", 3))
experiment <- rep(c(\"V1\", \"V2\", \"V3\"), 2)
results <- rnorm(mean = 10, n = 6)
         


        

Answer 1

You could also try this:

library(tidyr)
library(dplyr)
df = df %>% 
   unite(combined, round, experiment, sep = "_", remove = FALSE)

The output will be:

combined round experiment   results
 A_V1     A         V1      10.152329
 A_V2     A         V2      10.863128
 A_V3     A         V3      10.975773
 B_V1     B         V1       9.964696
 B_V2     B         V2       9.876675
 B_V3     B         V3       9.252936

This will retain your original columns.

Answer 2

Another solution could be to use the stri_join function in stringi package.

library(stringi)
df$new = stri_join(df$round,df$experiment,sep="_")

Answer 3

You can use the unite function from tidyr

require(tidyverse)

df %>% 
  unite(round_experiment, c("round", "experiment"))

  round_experiment   results
1             A_V1  8.797624
2             A_V2  9.721078
3             A_V3 10.519000
4             B_V1  9.714066
5             B_V2  9.952211
6             B_V3  9.642900

Answer 4

This should do the trick if you are looking for a new variable

library(tidyverse)

round <- c(rep("A", 3), rep("B", 3))
experiment <- rep(c("V1", "V2", "V3"), 2)
results <- rnorm(mean = 10, n = 6)

df <- data.frame(round, experiment, results)
df

df <- df %>% mutate(
  name = paste(round, experiment, sep = "_")
)