[R] union of two data frames
Achim Zeileis
Achim.Zeileis at wu-wien.ac.at
Tue Feb 26 00:45:06 CET 2008
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, AA wrote:
> There is a merge function in the "zoo" package that deals with time series.
> There have been couple of threats about it recently. Do a search.
Exactly. Threats like this: "Do a search! RTFM! Or we will kick your ass!"
But typically we try to avoid "threats" in "threads" on R-help...maybe
that is not always possible ;-)
Sorry, just kidding, couldn't resist...
Z
> Specially look for solutions proposed by Gabor Grothendieck regarding merge
> in
> those threats. (It was very helpful for me Tnx to Gabor).
> you could begin by ?merge.zoo
> Good Luck.
> AA.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "stephen sefick" <ssefick at gmail.com>
> To: "Erik Iverson" <iverson at biostat.wisc.edu>; <r-help at r-project.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 5:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [R] union of two data frames
>
>
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:35 PM, stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> DateTime var1 var2 var3 var4 var5 var6
> >> . . . . . . .
> >> . . . . . . .
> >> . . . . . . .
> >> 1/5/06 1 2 3 4 5 6
> >> 1/6/06 1 2 3 4 5 6
> >> 1/7/06 3 4 5 6 7 8
> >> 1/8/06 4 5 6 7 8 9
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> DateTime var1 var2 var3 var4 var5 var6
> >> 1/5/06 1 2 3 4 5 6
> >> 1/6/06 1 2 3 4 5 6
> >> 1/7/06 3 4 5 6 7 8
> >> 1/8/06 4 5 6 7 8 9
> >> . . . . . . .
> >> . . . . . . .
> >> . . . . . . .
> >>
> >>
> >> I would like to combine two data frames similar to these
> >
> > into this
> > DateTime var1 var2 var3 var4 var5 var6
> >> . . . . . . .
> >> . . . . . . .
> >> . . . . . . .
> >> 1/5/06 1 2 3 4 5 6
> >> 1/6/06 1 2 3 4 5 6
> >> 1/7/06 3 4 5 6 7 8
> >> 1/8/06 4 5 6 7 8 9
> >> . . . . . . .
> >> . . . . . . .
> >> . . . . . . .
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Erik Iverson <iverson at biostat.wisc.edu>
> >> wrote:
> >> > You probably need to provide an example here, show us your data.frame
> >> > column names, and what you mean by 'common subset of the same data'
> >> at
> >> > least. What did you try and what did it do that you didn't expect?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > stephen sefick wrote:
> >> > > I have a thirty thousand row data frame imported from excel and a
> >> > > 60,000 row data frame imported from excel. they share a common
> >> subset
> >> > > of the same data and I would like to combine the two into one data
> >> > > frame merged together on the data in common. I have looked at the
> >> > > help file for merge and intersect and cbind and rbind etc... And I
> >> > > can't figure it out. Thanks in advance
> >> > >
> >> > > Stephen
> >> > >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are
> >> so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and
> >> make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the
> >> annoying little problems of being mammals.
> >>
> >> -K.
> >> Mullis
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are
> > so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and
> > make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the
> > annoying little problems of being mammals.
> >
> > -K. Mullis
> >
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