Split string column to create new binary columns
Other option is to melt the split string in list to long form and then use table
library(reshape2)
as.data.frame.matrix(table(melt(strsplit(as.character(
mydata[[1]]), "/"))[2:1]))[,-1]
# ca eq2_off eq2_on fe.gr put sent_1 hi.on hi.ov sent_1fe.gr cni_at.p3x.4
#1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
#2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0
#3 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0
#4 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1
#5 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
# cbr_LBL
#1 0
#2 0
#3 0
#4 0
#5 1
Using mtabuate from the qdapTools package that I maintain:
library(qdapTools)
mtabulate(strsplit(as.character(dat[[1]]), "/"))
## V1 ca cbr_LBL cni_at.p3x.4 eq2_off eq2_on fe.gr hi.on hi.ov put sent_1 sent_1fe.gr
## 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0
## 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0
## 3 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1
## 4 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0
## 5 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0
You can use cSplit_e from my "splitstackshape" package:
library(splitstackshape)
cSplit_e(mydata, "ALL", "/", type = "character", fill = 0)
# ALL ALL_ca ALL_cbr_LBL
# 1 /ca/put/sent_1/fe.gr/eq2_on/eq2_off 1 0
# 2 /ca/put/sent_1/fe.gr/eq2_on/eq2_off/hi.on/hi.ov 1 0
# 3 /ca/put/sent_1fe.gr/eq2_on/eq2_off/hi.on/hi.ov 1 0
# 4 /ca/put/sent_1/fe.gr/eq2_on/eq2_off/cni_at.p3x.4 1 0
# 5 /ca/put/sent_1/fe.gr/eq2_on/eq2_off/cbr_LBL 1 1
# ALL_cni_at.p3x.4 ALL_eq2_off ALL_eq2_on ALL_fe.gr ALL_hi.on ALL_hi.ov ALL_put
# 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1
# 2 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
# 3 0 1 1 0 1 1 1
# 4 1 1 1 1 0 0 1
# 5 0 1 1 1 0 0 1
# ALL_sent_1 ALL_sent_1fe.gr
# 1 1 0
# 2 1 0
# 3 0 1
# 4 1 0
# 5 1 0
(Note: I think there's a problem in row 3 of your dput which is why it doesn't match your desired output. Notice that the third item in row 3 is "sent_1fe.gr" with no "/" between them.)
How about something like this
spt <- strsplit(as.character(mydata$ALL),"/", fixed=T)
do.call(rbind, lapply(lapply(spt, factor, levels=unique(unlist(spt))), table))
which returns
ca put sent_1 fe.gr eq2_on eq2_off hi.on hi.ov sent_1fe.gr cni_at.p3x.4 cbr_LBL
[1,] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
[2,] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0
[3,] 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0
[4,] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
[5,] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1