Hi All,

Newbie question for you all but i have been looking at the archieves and the
help dtuff to get a rough idea of what i want to do

I would like to merge two dataframes together based on a keyed variable in
one dataframe linking to the other dataframe.  Only some of the cases will
match but i would like to keep the others as well.

My dataframes have 67 and 28 cases respectively and i would like ot end uip
with one file 67 cases long (all 28 are matched cases).


I can use the merge command to merge two datasets together this but i still
get some
odd results, i'm using the code below;

ETC <- read.csv(file="CSV_Data2.csv",head=TRUE,sep=",")
'SURVEY <- read.csv(file="survey.csv",head=TRUE,sep=",")
'FullData <- merge(ETC, SURVEY, by.SURVEY = "uid", by.ETC = "ord")

The merged file seems to have 1800 cases while the ETC data file only
has 67 and the SURVEY file only has 28.  (Reading the help it looks as if it
merges 1 case with all cases in the other file, which is not what i want)

The matching variables fields are the 'ord' field and the 'uid' field
Can anyone advise please?

-- 
Michael Pearmain

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