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4 messages · Allan Edelsparre, Drew Tyre, Don McKenzie +1 more

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Hi all,

I have two data sets I want to merge. One has a vector with trap IDs and the vector from the other data set has the number of individuals captured at each trap site. I need to reverse the trap ID's within the trap ID vector in order to match the number trapped. Here is an example of how the vector looks like:

TrapID
A01
B01
C01
A02
B02
C02
A03
B03
C03

I need the vector to look like this

C01
B01
A01
C02
B02
A02
C03
B03
A03

I can do the first chunk using this code:

rev(TrapID[seq(1, 3)])

I've tried several versions of this code including doing a for loop where I ran each sequence through, but it never worked. Any thoughts as to how I can do the reversal of a sequence within my vector???

Allan
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Allan

If TrapID occurs in both datasets you can put them together regardless of order using base::merge() or dplyr::left_join(). 

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turn TrapID into a matrix, with rows and columns = the numbers of letter codes and number codes respectively.
Use apply() to reverse the columns
turn it back into a vector

Three lines of code

I?ll leave it to you to figure the details.
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Here you go.
[1] "C01" "B01" "A01" "C02" "B02" "A02" "C03" "B03" "A03"


On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 2:43 PM, Allan Edelsparre <a.edelsparre at utoronto.ca>
wrote: