How to concatenate text by group in R

To concatenate, you can use R base functions paste and paste0 that are almost the same. The only difference is in the separator argument. In this situation, we will use the collapse argument that will separate all the text within a group when concatenated.

It is easy to implement that with the help of dplyr package.

To concatenate by group in R you can use a paste with a collapse argument within mutate to return all rows in the dataset with results in a separate column or summarise to return only group values with results.

require(dplyr)

group_and_concat <- starwars %>%
  select(name, species, homeworld) %>% 
  group_by(species) %>%
  mutate(all_names = paste(name, collapse = " | "))

require(dplyr)

group_and_concat <- starwars %>%
  group_by(species) %>%
  summarise(all_names = paste(name, collapse = " | "))

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