[R] how to merge within range?

[Ian Gow]

If I assume that the third column in data.frame.2 is named "val" then in
SQL terms it _seems_ you want

SELECT a.time, b.val FROM data.frame.1 AS a LEFT JOIN data.frame.2 AS b ON
a.time BETWEEN b.start AND b.end;

Not sure how to do that elegantly using R subsetting/merge, but you might
try a package that allows you to use SQL, such as sqldf.


On 5/14/11 8:03 AM, "David Winsemius" <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:

>
>On May 14, 2011, at 8:12 AM, René Mayer wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> how can one merge
>
>And what happened when you typed:
>
>?merge
>
>> two data frames when in the second data frame one column defines the
>> start values
>> and another defines the end value of the to be merged range.
>> data.frame.1
>> time ...
>> 13
>> 24
>> 35
>> 46
>> 55
>> ...
>> data.frame.2
>> start end
>> 24 37 ?h? ?
>> ...
>>
>> should result in this
>> 13 NA
>> 24 ?h?
>> 35 ?h?
>> 46 NA
>> 55
>> ?
>
>And _why_ would that be?
>
>
>> thanks,
>> René
>>
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