[R] help matching rows of a data frame

[William Dunlap]

You could use merge() with an ID column pasted onto the table of names, as
in

> tbl <- data.frame(FirstName=c("Abe","Abe","Bob","Chuck","Chuck"),
Surname=c("Xavier","Yates","Yates","Yates","Zapf"), Id=paste0("P",101:105))
> tbl
  FirstName Surname   Id
1       Abe  Xavier P101
2       Abe   Yates P102
3       Bob   Yates P103
4     Chuck   Yates P104
5     Chuck    Zapf P105
> merge(data.frame(FirstName=c("Abe","Chuck","Dave"),
Surname=rep("Yates",3)), tbl, all.x=TRUE)
  FirstName Surname   Id
1       Abe   Yates P102
2     Chuck   Yates P104
3      Dave   Yates <NA>


Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 5:13 AM, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. <
therneau at mayo.edu> wrote:

> This question likely has a 1 line answer, I'm just not seeing it.  (2, 3,
> or 10 lines is fine too.)
>
> For a vector I can do group  <- match(x, unqiue(x)) to get a vector that
> labels each element of x.
> What is an equivalent if x is a data frame?
>
> The result does not have to be fast: the data set will have < 100
> elements.  Since this is inside the survival package, and that package is
> on  the 'recommended' list, I can't depend on any package outside the
> recommended list.
>
> Terry T.
>
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