[R] Problem with binding data-frames
Petr Klasterecky
klaster at karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Mon Jun 18 12:55:41 CEST 2007
Junnila, Jouni napsal(a):
> Hello,
>
> I'm having a problem concerning r-binding datasets.
>
> I have six datasets, from six different plates, and two different days.
> I want to combine these datasets together for analysis. Datasets from
> day 2, have all the same columns than datasets from day 1. However in
> addition, there are few columns more in day 2. Thus, using rbind for
> this, results a error, because the objects are not the same length.
>
> Error in paste(nmi[nii == 0L], collapse = ", ") :
> object "nii" not found
> In addition: Warning message:
> longer object length
> is not a multiple of shorter object length in: clabs == nmi
Hi,
1. the error has nothing to do with differing lengths of your objects -
that's what the following warning is about. The error occured because
your indexing object 'nii' does not exist where R is looking for it.
2. using rbind on dataframes is a bad practice, since the input is
converted to marices if possible. Use merge() instead.
Petr
>
>
> What I need, is to combine all the six together, and give for example
> NA-value in day 1, for those columns which can only be found in day 2.
> Is this somehow possible?
>
> I have several of these six-datasets groups, and only few of them are
> having this problem described above, and I cannot know in advance which.
> With most of the groups writing
> rbind(data1,data2,data3,data4,data5,data6)
> works easily, but these few problematic groups need also to be
> combined...
> Any help greatly appreciated!
>
> -Jouni
>
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Petr Klasterecky
Dept. of Probability and Statistics
Charles University in Prague
Czech Republic
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