[R] combining data from different datasets

[Daniel Malter]

?merge.

It looks though that your "iso" has no identifier variable whereas the
"rawdata" has, so you probably cannot merge it unless/until you have an
identifier in "iso". If you know that all data is already ordered
accordingly, you can just bind the columns together in a new object like
this:

newdata=data.frame(rawdata$alter,rawdata$sex,iso$country)
newdata #return newdata

Cheers,
Daniel


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Hi,

I have two tables:


 > iso
     continent code code3 codenum                          country
1          EU   AD   AND      20         Andorra, Principality of
2          AS   AE   ARE     784             United Arab Emirates
3          AS   AF   AFG       4 Afghanistan, Islamic Republic of
4          NA   AG   ATG      28              Antigua and Barbuda
5          NA   AI   AIA     660                         Anguilla
159        AF   NA   NAM     516             Namibia, Republic of
...
246        AF   ZW   ZWE     716            Zimbabwe, Republic of



and

 > rawdata
    idno alter  sex cctld capacity topics content speakers
1     1    NA    M    AD        A      2       1        2
2     2    52    M  <NA>        A      3       2        2
3     3    39    F    NA        T      2       2        2
...

How do I make it print out something like

	alter	sex	country
1	NA	M	Andorra, Principality of
2	39	F	Namibia, Republic of
...

in other words do something like the following SQL:

SELECT r.alter, r.sex, i.country
FROM iso i, rawdata r
WHERE i.code = r.cctld

or even better:

	alter	sex	country
1	NA	M	Andorra, Principality of
2	52	M	<NA>
3	39	F	Namibia
...

And idea (where I can read up on this)?


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