[R] Combining Data Sets w/ Weights

[David Winsemius]

On Sep 16, 2010, at 8:33 PM, btpagano wrote:

>
> Hello All,
>
> I am still a beginner with R, and I only have a week or two under my  
> belt so
> far.
>
> I'm working with NHANES anthropometric data on stature.  I have two  
> sets of
> data that have different statistical weights. I'm trying to combine  
> those
> two data sets into one "mega-set" while retaining each data point's
> individual weight.

Are you working with the Continuous NHANES datasets? If so, which  
ones? Do you have them in R objects? If so can you provide the results  
of str() on two that you want to merge?

-- 
David.

>
> If you have any idea as to how this is done, please let me know or  
> let me
> know where to start looking.  I've heard of cbind and rbind  
> commands, but
> I'm not sure if that would do the trick.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian
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David Winsemius, MD
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