[R] Combine two columns

Henrique Dallazuanna wwwhsd at gmail.com
Fri Mar 7 22:13:24 CET 2008


Try:

transform(x, AL1Al2 = paste(AL1, AL2, sep=''))[-c(3:4)]

On 07/03/2008, amarkey at uiuc.edu <amarkey at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Is there a way to combine two columns within a data frame?
>
>  Example data:
>
>  id      snp     AL1     AL2
>  1500    30      A       B
>  1510    30      A       A
>  1520    30      A       B
>
>  This is what I would like:
>
>  indv    snp     AL1AL2
>  1500    30      AB
>  1510    30      AA
>  1520    30      AB
>
>  Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>  Alysta
>
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