[R] Quick tip please!

Carlos Ortega carlos.ortega at minorplanet.com
Tue Dec 17 17:57:03 CET 2002


Hi,

Please read "merge".

Regards,
Carlos.


-----Mensaje original-----
De: r-help-admin at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-admin at stat.math.ethz.ch]En nombre de Ben Bolker
Enviado el: martes, 17 de diciembre de 2002 17:32
Para: Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk
CC: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Asunto: Re: [R] Quick tip please!



  Maybe

data.frame(d1,d2[!names(d2) %in% names(d1)])    ?

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:

> I have two CSV files (exported from Excel), say file1 and file2.
> 
> The have the same number of rows, and each has several columns,
> with names on the first line; and some of the columns in file1
> are repeated in file2.
> 
> Using the "foreign" package, I can read these in separately
> to dataframes say d1 and d2 with
> 
>   > d1<-read.csv("file1")
>   > d2<-read.csv("file2")
> 
> Now I would like to combine these into a single dataframe D,
> notionally
> 
>   D <- "d1 on the left, d2 on the right"
> 
> which contains all the columns except that duplicates only occur
> once (and, preferably, in the order of occurrence on d1 -- i.e.
> remove them from d2 if already dound in d1).
> 
> Any tips for how to do this slickly?
> 
> With thanks,
> Ted.
> 
> 
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