Final answer:
XLOOKUP is an Excel function used to look up and retrieve data from a table. It can calculate maintenance costs by matching vehicle IDs with maintenance cost values. While not available in Python, R, or SQL, these languages offer their own methods for achieving similar lookup functionality.
Step-by-step explanation:
The XLOOKUP function can be used to calculate the maintenance cost for each vehicle by searching for the vehicle's reference in a dataset and retrieving the associated maintenance cost. The XLOOKUP function was introduced in Excel as a more powerful and flexible replacement for older lookup functions like VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP. Assuming you have a table where one column lists vehicle IDs and another column lists their respective maintenance costs, you can use XLOOKUP to search for a vehicle ID and return the corresponding maintenance cost.
To use XLOOKUP in Excel, you would enter a formula in a cell where you want to display the maintenance cost. Here is an example formula:
=XLOOKUP(A2, A:A, B:B)
In the above formula, 'A2' is the cell that contains the vehicle ID you're looking up, 'A:A' is the range of cells containing the list of vehicle IDs, and 'B:B' is the range of cells containing the maintenance costs. Essentially, XLOOKUP searches for the value in A2 within the range A:A and returns the corresponding value from the range B:B.
XLOOKUP is not natively available in Python, R, or SQL, but similar functionality can be achieved using:
- Python's pandas library (using the .merge() or .map() methods)
- R's merge functions or dplyr package
- SQL's JOIN clause