R data frame string contains: Does column 1 contain column 2?

Question

I have a dataframe with two columns:

  Surname                Email
1   house  greghouse@gmail.com
2  wilson johnwatson@gmail.com

I want to create a logical vector which checks if Surname is contained in Email. The result should therefore be:

  Surname                Email CheckEmail
1   house  greghouse@gmail.com       TRUE
2  wilson johnwatson@gmail.com      FALSE

I tried grep but it seems that grep can only look for one pattern in 1 or more instances. I specifically need to look for multiple patterns in multiple instances.

> grep(df1$Surname,df1$Email)
[1] 1
Warning message:
In grep(df1$Surname, df1$Email) :
  argument 'pattern' has length > 1 and only the first element will be used

Answer 1

Try with library("stringi") and:

df1$CheckEmail <- stri_detect_fixed(df1$Email, df1$Surname)

Answer 2

Here's a base R approach using mapply with grepl:

transform(df, CheckEmail = mapply(grepl, Surname, Email))
#  Surname                Email CheckEmail
#1   house  greghouse@gmail.com       TRUE
#2  wilson johnwatson@gmail.com      FALSE

Answer 3

Here's a base R option using Vectorize with grepl:

df1$CheckEmail <- Vectorize(grepl)(df1$Surname, df1$Email)