Import your data

data <- read_excel("../01_module4/data/myData.xlsx")
data
## # A tibble: 1,104 × 31
##    town11cd  town11nm population_2011 size_flag rgn11nm coastal coastal_detailed
##    <chr>     <chr>              <dbl> <chr>     <chr>   <chr>   <chr>           
##  1 E34000007 Carlton…            5456 Small To… East M… Non-co… Smaller non-coa…
##  2 E34000016 Dorches…           19060 Small To… South … Non-co… Smaller non-coa…
##  3 E34000020 Ely BUA            19090 Small To… East o… Non-co… Smaller non-coa…
##  4 E34000026 Market …            6429 Small To… Yorksh… Non-co… Smaller non-coa…
##  5 E34000027 Downham…           10884 Small To… East o… Non-co… Smaller non-coa…
##  6 E34000039 Penrith…           15181 Small To… North … Non-co… Smaller non-coa…
##  7 E34000048 Bolsove…           11754 Small To… East M… Non-co… Smaller non-coa…
##  8 E34000055 March B…           21051 Medium T… East o… Non-co… Large non-coast…
##  9 E34000056 Southam…            6567 Small To… West M… Non-co… Smaller non-coa…
## 10 E34000067 Royston…           15781 Small To… East o… Non-co… Smaller non-coa…
## # ℹ 1,094 more rows
## # ℹ 24 more variables: ttwa11cd <chr>, ttwa11nm <chr>,
## #   ttwa_classification <chr>, job_density_flag <chr>, income_flag <chr>,
## #   university_flag <chr>, level4qual_residents35_64_2011 <chr>,
## #   ks4_2012_2013_counts <dbl>,
## #   key_stage_2_attainment_school_year_2007_to_2008 <dbl>,
## #   key_stage_4_attainment_school_year_2012_to_2013 <dbl>, …

Chapter 14

Tools

Detect matches

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##  [973] "Medium Towns"     "Medium Towns"     "Medium Towns"    
##  [976] "Small Towns"      "Large Towns"      "Medium Towns"    
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##  [982] "Medium Towns"     "Medium Towns"     "Small Towns"     
##  [985] "Small Towns"      "Medium Towns"     "Medium Towns"    
##  [988] "Large Towns"      "Medium Towns"     "Medium Towns"    
##  [991] "Small Towns"      "Medium Towns"     "Large Towns"     
##  [994] "Medium Towns"     "Medium Towns"     "Large Towns"     
##  [997] "City"             "Small Towns"      "Small Towns"     
## [1000] "Medium Towns"     "Medium Towns"     "Medium Towns"    
## [1003] "Medium Towns"     "Medium Towns"     "Small Towns"     
## [1006] "Medium Towns"     "Small Towns"      "Small Towns"     
## [1009] "Small Towns"      "City"             "Large Towns"     
## [1012] "Large Towns"      "Small Towns"      "Small Towns"     
## [1015] "Large Towns"      "Small Towns"      "Medium Towns"    
## [1018] "Small Towns"      "Large Towns"      "Large Towns"     
## [1021] "Medium Towns"     "Small Towns"      "Medium Towns"    
## [1024] "Medium Towns"     "City"             "City"            
## [1027] "Small Towns"      "Medium Towns"     "Large Towns"     
## [1030] "Small Towns"      "Large Towns"      "Small Towns"     
## [1033] "Medium Towns"     "Medium Towns"     "Medium Towns"    
## [1036] "Small Towns"      "Large Towns"      "Small Towns"     
## [1039] "Medium Towns"     "Small Towns"      "Small Towns"     
## [1042] "Medium Towns"     "Small Towns"      "Small Towns"     
## [1045] "Medium Towns"     "Medium Towns"     "Medium Towns"    
## [1048] "Medium Towns"     "Small Towns"      "Large Towns"     
## [1051] "Large Towns"      "Medium Towns"     "Large Towns"     
## [1054] "Medium Towns"     "Medium Towns"     "Small Towns"     
## [1057] "Large Towns"      "Small Towns"      "Large Towns"     
## [1060] "Large Towns"      "Small Towns"      "Medium Towns"    
## [1063] "Large Towns"      "Small Towns"      "Medium Towns"    
## [1066] "Small Towns"      "Small Towns"      "Medium Towns"    
## [1069] "Small Towns"      "Small Towns"      "Small Towns"     
## [1072] "City"             "Small Towns"      "Large Towns"     
## [1075] "Large Towns"      "Small Towns"      "Medium Towns"    
## [1078] "Small Towns"      "Medium Towns"     "Small Towns"     
## [1081] "Small Towns"      "Medium Towns"     "Small Towns"     
## [1084] "Medium Towns"     "Medium Towns"     "Medium Towns"    
## [1087] "Medium Towns"     "Medium Towns"     "Small Towns"     
## [1090] "Large Towns"      "Large Towns"      "Medium Towns"    
## [1093] "Small Towns"      "Large Towns"      "Medium Towns"    
## [1096] "Small Towns"      "Medium Towns"     "Large Towns"     
## [1099] "Large Towns"      "Large Towns"      "Inner London BUA"
## [1102] "Outer london BUA" "Other Small BUAs" "Not BUA"
str_detect(data$size_flag, "Small Towns")
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sum(str_detect(data$size_flag, "Small Towns")
)
## [1] 662
data %>% 
    summarise(num_SmallTowns = sum(str_detect(size_flag, "Small Towns")))
## # A tibble: 1 × 1
##   num_SmallTowns
##            <int>
## 1            662
mean(str_detect(data$size_flag, "Small Towns"))
## [1] 0.5996377

Extract matches

data %>% 
    mutate(col_SmallTowns = str_extract(size_flag, "Small Towns")) %>% 
    select(size_flag, col_SmallTowns) %>%
    filter(!is.na(col_SmallTowns))
## # A tibble: 662 × 2
##    size_flag   col_SmallTowns
##    <chr>       <chr>         
##  1 Small Towns Small Towns   
##  2 Small Towns Small Towns   
##  3 Small Towns Small Towns   
##  4 Small Towns Small Towns   
##  5 Small Towns Small Towns   
##  6 Small Towns Small Towns   
##  7 Small Towns Small Towns   
##  8 Small Towns Small Towns   
##  9 Small Towns Small Towns   
## 10 Small Towns Small Towns   
## # ℹ 652 more rows

Replacing matches

data %>%
    mutate(col_LargeTowns = str_replace(size_flag, "Small Towns", "Large Towns")) %>%
    select(size_flag, col_LargeTowns)
## # A tibble: 1,104 × 2
##    size_flag    col_LargeTowns
##    <chr>        <chr>         
##  1 Small Towns  Large Towns   
##  2 Small Towns  Large Towns   
##  3 Small Towns  Large Towns   
##  4 Small Towns  Large Towns   
##  5 Small Towns  Large Towns   
##  6 Small Towns  Large Towns   
##  7 Small Towns  Large Towns   
##  8 Medium Towns Medium Towns  
##  9 Small Towns  Large Towns   
## 10 Small Towns  Large Towns   
## # ℹ 1,094 more rows