[R] Populate one data frame with values from another dataframe for rows that match

[Bert Gunter]

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Bert

On Oct 13, 2017 12:09 PM, "Kevin Wamae" <KWamae at kemri-wellcome.org> wrote:

> I'm trying to populate the column “pf_mcl” in myDF1 with values from
> myDF2, where rows match based on column "studyno" but the solutions I have
> found so far don't seem to be giving me the desired output.
>
> Below is a snapshot of the data.frames.
>
> myDF1 <- structure(list(studyno = c("J1000/9", "J1000/9", "J1000/9",
> "J1000/9",
> "J1000/9", "J1000/9"), date = structure(c(17123, 17127, 17135,
> 17144, 17148, 17155), class = "Date"), pf_mcl = c(NA_integer_,
> NA_integer_, NA_integer_, NA_integer_, NA_integer_, NA_integer_
> ), year = c(2016, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2016)), .Names = c("studyno",
> "date", "pf_mcl", "year"), row.names = c(NA, 6L), class = "data.frame")
>
> myDF2 <- structure(list(studyno = c("J740/4", "J1000/9", "J895/7",
> "J931/6",
> "J609/1", "J941/3"), pf_mcl = c(0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L)), .Names =
> c("studyno",
> "pf_mcl"), row.names = c(NA, 6L), class = "data.frame")
>
> myDF2 is a well curated subset of myDF1. Some rows in the two datasets
> match based on "studyno", one may find that values are missing in
> myDF1$pf_mcl or the values are wrong.
>
> All I want to do is identify a matching row in myDF2 and populate
> myDF1$pf_mcl with the value in myDF2$pf_mcl. If a row does not match based
> on “studyno”, the value should remain the same.
>
> It's probably worth mentioning, the two data frames have other columns...I
> have selected a few for example purposes.
>
>
>
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