I looking for a way to efficiently apply a function to each row of data.table. Let's consider the following data table:
library(data.table)
library(stringr)
x <- data.table(a = c(1:3, 1), b = c('12 13', '14 15', '16 17', '18 19'))
> x
a b
1: 1 12 13
2: 2 14 15
3: 3 16 17
4: 1 18 19
b
a V1
1: 1 12
2: 1 13
3: 2 14
4: 2 15
5: 3 16
6: 3 17
7: 1 18
8: 1 19
a
x[, list(str_split(b, ' ')[[1]]), by = a]
x
> x[, list(str_split(b, ' ')[[1]]), by = list(a,b)]
a b V1
1: 1 12 13 12
2: 1 12 13 13
3: 2 14 15 14
4: 2 14 15 15
5: 3 16 17 16
6: 3 16 17 17
7: 1 18 19 18
8: 1 18 19 19
How about :
x
a b
1: 1 12 13
2: 2 14 15
3: 3 16 17
4: 1 18 19
x[,list(a=rep(a,each=2), V1=unlist(strsplit(b," ")))]
a V1
1: 1 12
2: 1 13
3: 2 14
4: 2 15
5: 3 16
6: 3 17
7: 1 18
8: 1 19
Generalized solution given comment :
x[,{s=strsplit(b," ");list(a=rep(a,sapply(s,length)), V1=unlist(s))}]