library(dplyr)
##
## Attaching package: 'dplyr'
## The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
##
## filter, lag
## The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
##
## intersect, setdiff, setequal, union
# Dataset 1: Customers
customers <- tibble(
customer_id = c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5),
name = c("Alice", "Bob", "Charlie", "David", "Eve"),
city = c("New York", "Los Angeles", "Chicago", "Houston", "Phoenix")
)
# Dataset 2: Orders
orders <- tibble(
order_id = c(101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106),
customer_id = c(1, 2, 3, 2, 6, 7),
product = c("Laptop", "Phone", "Tablet", "Desktop", "Camera", "Printer"),
amount = c(1200, 800, 300, 1500, 600, 150)
)
q1 <- inner_join(customers , orders)
## Joining with `by = join_by(customer_id)`
There are 4 rows.
Some customers and orders are not shown because they do not have a match in both tables.
head(q1)
## # A tibble: 4 × 6
## customer_id name city order_id product amount
## <dbl> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <chr> <dbl>
## 1 1 Alice New York 101 Laptop 1200
## 2 2 Bob Los Angeles 102 Phone 800
## 3 2 Bob Los Angeles 104 Desktop 1500
## 4 3 Charlie Chicago 103 Tablet 300
q2 <- left_join(customers,orders, by = "customer_id")
There are 6 rows.
This method looks at the left table and matches all right table data points to create a new table.
print(q2)
## # A tibble: 6 × 6
## customer_id name city order_id product amount
## <dbl> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <chr> <dbl>
## 1 1 Alice New York 101 Laptop 1200
## 2 2 Bob Los Angeles 102 Phone 800
## 3 2 Bob Los Angeles 104 Desktop 1500
## 4 3 Charlie Chicago 103 Tablet 300
## 5 4 David Houston NA <NA> NA
## 6 5 Eve Phoenix NA <NA> NA
q3 <- right_join(customers, orders, by = "customer_id")
There are 6 rows.
Customer ids 6 and 7 have NULL for customer name and city because the customers table doesn’t contain any data for them. Since the customers table was the left table in this case customer ids 6 and 7 were shown regardless of what information they were missing.
print(q3)
## # A tibble: 6 × 6
## customer_id name city order_id product amount
## <dbl> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <chr> <dbl>
## 1 1 Alice New York 101 Laptop 1200
## 2 2 Bob Los Angeles 102 Phone 800
## 3 2 Bob Los Angeles 104 Desktop 1500
## 4 3 Charlie Chicago 103 Tablet 300
## 5 6 <NA> <NA> 105 Camera 600
## 6 7 <NA> <NA> 106 Printer 150
q4 <- full_join(customers, orders, by = "customer_id")
There are 8 rows.
Rows 5/6 and 7/8 both are missing data since they both only contain data from one table. The reasoning is that full_join matches every row from customer_id regardless if there’s missing data.
print(q4)
## # A tibble: 8 × 6
## customer_id name city order_id product amount
## <dbl> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <chr> <dbl>
## 1 1 Alice New York 101 Laptop 1200
## 2 2 Bob Los Angeles 102 Phone 800
## 3 2 Bob Los Angeles 104 Desktop 1500
## 4 3 Charlie Chicago 103 Tablet 300
## 5 4 David Houston NA <NA> NA
## 6 5 Eve Phoenix NA <NA> NA
## 7 6 <NA> <NA> 105 Camera 600
## 8 7 <NA> <NA> 106 Printer 150
q5 <- semi_join(customers, orders, by = "customer_id")
There are 3 rows.
This result differs from the inner_join result because it doesn’t return rows from all tables. Semi join only returns all rows from the left table where there is a match in the right table.
print(q5)
## # A tibble: 3 × 3
## customer_id name city
## <dbl> <chr> <chr>
## 1 1 Alice New York
## 2 2 Bob Los Angeles
## 3 3 Charlie Chicago
q6 <- anti_join(customers, orders, by = "customer_id")
David and Eve are the only customers in the result.
This result informs me that these two customers are missing from the orders table(right table).
print(q6)
## # A tibble: 2 × 3
## customer_id name city
## <dbl> <chr> <chr>
## 1 4 David Houston
## 2 5 Eve Phoenix
I would use the the full_join function to find all customers because it returns all rows when there is a match in either left or right table. This means that it will also include people who haven’t placed any orders.
I would use inner_join to find only the customers who have placed orders. Inner join returns all rows from both tables where there is a match. This means customers that are missing their name or order won’t show up. Only customers with all of the required information for a complete order will be shown.
q7A <- full_join(customers, orders, by = "customer_id")
q7B <- inner_join(customers , orders, by = "customer_id")
print(q7A)
## # A tibble: 8 × 6
## customer_id name city order_id product amount
## <dbl> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <chr> <dbl>
## 1 1 Alice New York 101 Laptop 1200
## 2 2 Bob Los Angeles 102 Phone 800
## 3 2 Bob Los Angeles 104 Desktop 1500
## 4 3 Charlie Chicago 103 Tablet 300
## 5 4 David Houston NA <NA> NA
## 6 5 Eve Phoenix NA <NA> NA
## 7 6 <NA> <NA> 105 Camera 600
## 8 7 <NA> <NA> 106 Printer 150
print(q7B)
## # A tibble: 4 × 6
## customer_id name city order_id product amount
## <dbl> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <chr> <dbl>
## 1 1 Alice New York 101 Laptop 1200
## 2 2 Bob Los Angeles 102 Phone 800
## 3 2 Bob Los Angeles 104 Desktop 1500
## 4 3 Charlie Chicago 103 Tablet 300