Joining two data frames using range of values - r

Question

I have two data sets I would like to join. The income_range data is the master dataset and I would like to join data_occ to the income_range data based on what band the income falls inside. Where there are more than two observations(incomes) that are within the range I would like to take the lower income.
I was attempting to use data.table but was having trouble. I was would also like to keep all columns from both data.frames if possible.
The output dataset should only have 7 observations.
library(data.table)
library(dplyr)
income_range <- data.frame(id = "France"
,inc_lower = c(10, 21, 31, 41,51,61,71)
,inc_high = c(20, 30, 40, 50,60,70,80)
,perct = c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7))
data_occ <- data.frame(id = rep(c("France","Belgium"), each=50)
,income = sample(10:80, 50)
,occ = rep(c("manager","clerk","manual","skilled","office"), each=20))
setDT(income_range)
setDT(data_occ)
First attempt.
df2 <- income_range [data_occ ,
on = .(id, inc_lower <= income, inc_high >= income),
.(id, income, inc_lower,inc_high,perct,occ)]
Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Since you tagged dplyr, here's one possible solution using that library:
library('fuzzyjoin')
# join dataframes on id == id, inc_lower <= income, inc_high >= income
joined <- income_range %>%
fuzzy_left_join(data_occ,
by = c('id' = 'id', 'inc_lower' = 'income', 'inc_high' = 'income'),
match_fun = list(`==`, `<=`, `>=`)) %>%
rename(id = id.x) %>%
select(-id.y)
# sort by income, and keep only the first row of every unique perct
result <- joined %>%
arrange(income) %>%
group_by(perct) %>%
slice(1)
And the (intermediate) results:
> head(joined)
id inc_lower inc_high perct income occ
1 France 10 20 1 10 manager
2 France 10 20 1 19 manager
3 France 10 20 1 14 manager
4 France 10 20 1 11 manager
5 France 10 20 1 17 manager
6 France 10 20 1 12 manager
> result
# A tibble: 7 x 6
# Groups: perct [7]
id inc_lower inc_high perct income occ
<chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <int> <chr>
1 France 10 20 1 10 manager
2 France 21 30 2 21 manual
3 France 31 40 3 31 manual
4 France 41 50 4 43 manager
5 France 51 60 5 51 clerk
6 France 61 70 6 61 manager
7 France 71 80 7 71 manager
I've added the intermediate dataframe joined for easy of understanding. You can omit it and just chain the two command chains together with %>%.

Answer 2

Here is one data.table approach:
cols = c("inc_lower", "inc_high")
data_occ[, (cols) := income]
result = data_occ[order(income)
][income_range,
on = .(id, inc_lower>=inc_lower, inc_high<=inc_high),
mult="first"]
data_occ[, (cols) := NULL]
# id income occ inc_lower inc_high perct
# 1: France 10 clerk 10 20 1
# 2: France 21 manager 21 30 2
# 3: France 31 clerk 31 40 3
# 4: France 41 clerk 41 50 4
# 5: France 51 clerk 51 60 5
# 6: France 62 manager 61 70 6
# 7: France 71 manager 71 80 7