Excellent job providing example data and a desired result.
This code works on the example you provided. Hope it helps.
Jean
# reshape the info data frame
library(tidyr)
info2 <- gather(myinfo, set, val, -game)
info2$set <- as.numeric(gsub("[[:alpha:]]", "", info2$set))
# add a new column to the x data frame
y <- t(x[,grep("char", names(x))])
newx <- x
newx$char <- row(y)[y==1]
# merge and define winner
res <- merge(newx, info2)
res$winner <- with(res, ifelse(char==val, 1, 0))
res
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski <
dimitri.liakhovit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Merry upcoming Christmas - for those of us who celebrate it!
>
> # I have data frame x.
> x <- data.frame(game = c(rep(1, 4), rep(2, 4)), set = rep(c(1,1,2,2),
> 2), player = rep(1:2, 4),
> char1 = c(1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1), char2 =
> c(0,0,1,0,0,1,0,0), char3 = c(0,1,0,1,0,0,0,0),
> char4 = c(0,0,0,0,1,0,1,0))
> x
> # There are several games (2 here). Each game has several sets (2
> here. In each set participate
> # several players (2 here).
> # Each player possesses 1 or 4 possible characteristics.
> # For example, in game 1, set 1, player 1 has characteristic 1 and player
> 2 -
> # characteristic 3
>
> # I also have data frame myinfo:
> (myinfo <- data.frame(game = 1:2, set1 = c(3, 4), set2 = c(2, 1)))
> # It tells me:
> # in game 1, set 1 the winner was the player with characteristic 3
> # in game 1, set 2 the winner was the player with characteristic 2, etc.
>
> # I need to merge the 2 to produce the result below.
> # I just need an additional column that - for each game and each set -
> # has a 1 in the row of the player who had the winning characteristic
> # (as per myinfo) and has a 0 otherwise.
>
> result <- x
> result$winner <- c(0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1)
> result
>
> # I have written a long loop that loops through each set of each game,
> identifies
> # which characteristic wins in myinfo, and puts a 1 against the winning
> row.
> # But it's taking forever. Could it be done faster? Thanks a lot!
>
> # Important: In my real game the number of players could be more than
> 2 and so can
> # the number of games and the number of sets per game.
> # However, we can assume that the number of sets per game is always the
> same,
> # and the number of players per set is always the same.
>
>
> --
> Dimitri Liakhovitski
>
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