[R] quick matching question

[Sarah Goslee]

Looks like a job for merge().

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Ben Ganzfried <ben.ganzfried at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm trying to match patient identifiers from two separate input files, and
> then add information from one of the input files to the corresponding output
> file.  I'd greatly appreciate any help!
>
> More specifically,
> Input_File_1 has a column header "bcr_patient_barcode"
> Input_File_2 has a column header "Barcode" and a column header "Batch"
>
> I want my script to match the appropriate patient identifiers since
> "bcr_patient_barcode" and "Barcode" are not in the same order.  Then I want
> to add the information from "Batch" to the corresponding patient.
>
> My (incorrect) code is below:
>
> #batch
> tmp <- Input_File_2$Barcode
> tmp1 <- Input_File_1$bcr_patient_barcode
>
> for i in tmp
>  for item in tmp1
> if (tmp == tmp1) {
>  curated$batch <- Input_File_2$Batch
> }
>


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