[R] Combining data.frames

[Jeff Reichman]

Tom

Looks like I figured it out. Syntax issue - wrong "all" argument  (I think)

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Woolman <twoolman using ontargettek.com> 
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2022 8:27 PM
To: reichmanj using sbcglobal.net
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Subject: Re: [R] Combining data.frames

You can also do "SQL-like" joins in the tidyverse with dplyr.


On 2022-03-19 21:23, Jeff Reichman wrote:
> Evening Tom
> 
> Yest I've been playing with the merge function.  But haven't been able 
> to achieve what I need. Could maybe the way to to and it might be my 
> syntax
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Woolman <twoolman using ontargettek.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2022 8:20 PM
> To: reichmanj using sbcglobal.net
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> Subject: Re: [R] Combining data.frames
> 
> Have you looked at the merge function in base R?
> 
> https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/base/versions/3.6.2/topics/mer
> ge
> 
> 
> On 2022-03-19 21:15, Jeff Reichman wrote:
>> R-Help Community
>> 
>> I'm trying to combine two data.frames which each containing 10 
>> columns of which they each share two common fields. Here are two 
>> small test datasets.
>> 
>> df1 <- data.frame(date =
>> c("2021-1-1","2021-1-1","2021-1-1","2021-1-1","2021-1-1",
>> 
>> "2021-1-2","2021-1-2","2021-1-3","2021-1-3","2021-1-3"),
>>                   geo_hash =
>> c("abc123","abc123","abc456","abc789","abc246","abc123",
>>                                "asd123","abc789","abc890","abc123"),
>>                   ad_id =
>> c("a12345","b12345","a12345","a12345","c12345",
>> 
>> "b12345","b12345","a12345","b12345","a12345"))
>> df2 <- data.frame(date =
>> c("2021-1-1","2021-1-1","2021-1-2","2021-1-3","2021-1-3"),
>>                   geo_hash =
>> c("abc123","abc456","abc123","abc789","abc890"),
>>                   event =
>> c("shoting","ied","protest","riot","protest"))
>> 
>> I'm trying to combine them such that I get a combined data.frames 
>> such as
>> 
>> date		geo_hash	ad_id		event
>> 1/1/2021	abc123		a12345		shoting
>> 1/1/2021	abc123		b12345
>> 1/1/2021	abc456		a12345		ied
>> 1/1/2021	abc789		a12345
>> 1/1/2021	abc246		c12345
>> 
>> Jeff
>> 
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