Dear Marc, Dear all,

I saw your e-mail about "merge()" and I take the occasion to ask something
to you I already asked on the list but without success.
I searched long without finding, maybe you have a clue ...
I am looking for a function which performs the same as "merge()" but for
more than 2 lists, for example this would be :

> merge(table1, table2, ..., table(i), by = "common.variable")

Thanks a lot,

Florence.

--
R 2.2.0 (!) under Linux Debian.



On 12/15/05, Marc Schwartz <MSchwartz@mn.rr.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 18:14 -0800, Marco Blanchette wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am still fairly new to R and try to analyze large tables of data
> generated
> > from genomic experiment. Currently, I am trying to plot pair of
> experiments
> > coming from different file, trying to look at the behavior of individual
> > feature in pair of experiment.
> >
> > My problem is that I have independent list from different source and I
> would
> > like to plot the pair of value using a common key. As in this simplified
> > version:
> >
> > table1 = list(CGID=c("CG_1","CG_3","CG_2", "CG_4", "CG_5"),
> > diff=c(3,5,6,4,3))
> >
> > table2 = list(CGID=c("CG_2","CG_3","CG_4", "CG_1", "CG_5"),
> > diff=c(4,6,3,9,10))
> >
> > How can link the two table trough the CGIDC column and plot the data
> from
> > the 2 tables.
> >
> > Many tx
> >
> > Marco Blanchette, Ph.D.
>
> Marco,
>
> Please use an informative subject when posting. It makes it easier for
> folks, especially when reviewing the e-mail list archives.
>
> There is a function called merge() which will perform SQL-like joins.
>
> merge() will coerce the two lists to data frames, so you can do the
> following:
>
> > merge(table1, table2, by = "CGID")
>   CGID diff.x diff.y
> 1 CG_1      3      9
> 2 CG_2      6      4
> 3 CG_3      5      6
> 4 CG_4      4      3
> 5 CG_5      3     10
>
> The result is a join of the two lists, using CGID (quoted) as the
> primary key. The two 'diff' elements are uniquely named based upon their
> source objects (x and y arguments in merge()) as a suffix. The appended
> suffix can be changed if required.
>
> See ?merge for more information.
>
> HTH,
>
> Marc Schwartz
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide!
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>

	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]


