GROUP BY for strings in R
#! /usr/bin/env Rscript
lics<-read.csv("~/Temp/csvdb/license-union-norownum.csv", header = TRUE, sep = ",", stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
# Using dplyr
licsgr<-dplyr::group_by(lics, gem)
licsgrsum<-summarise(licsgr, list(license))
colnames(licsgrsum)<-c("gem", "licenses")
# Using sqlf
licsgrsum2<-sqldf('select gem, group_concat(license) as licenses from lics group by gem')
# We can't write licsgrsum to file because it contains lists
write.csv(licsgrsum2, "~/Temp/csvdb/ri.csv", row.names = FALSE)