Try this:

merge(transform(data1, .Id01 = ave(as.character(Id01), Id01, FUN=seq)),
          transform(data2, .Id02 = ave(as.character(Id02), Id02, FUN=seq)),
          by.x = c('Id01', '.Id01'), by.y = c('Id02', '.Id02'), all = TRUE)

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Julien Beguin <julien.beguin.1@ulaval.ca>wrote:

> I forgot to mention that I tried with "merge" and "join" (package analogue)
> without success...
>
> Julien
>
> Selon Julien Beguin <julien.beguin.1@ulaval.ca>, 31.07.2009:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am trying to merge two data frames based on a common column but for
> this
> > common column both data frame do not have the same length and associated
> > information. I checked previous exemples in the list but was not able to
> > apply
> > them in my case... Is someone know how to do that? Below is my code with
> the
> > expected result:
> >
> > # data frame 1
> > Id1 <- c(1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3)
> > Habit1 <- c('a','a','a','b','b','b','d','d','d')
> > Id01 <- paste(Id1, Habit1,sep=".")
> > data1 <- data.frame(Id01)
> >
> > # data frame 2
> > Id2 <- c(1,2,3,3)
> > Habit2 <- c('a','b','d','d')
> > Id02 <- paste(Id2, Habit2,sep=".")
> > Area <- c(10,2,3,5)
> > data2 <- data.frame(cbind(Id02, Area))
> >
> > # result that I would like
> > Area2 <- c(10, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 3, 5, 0)
> > result <- data.frame(cbind(Id01, Area2))
> >
> > Thank's
> >
> > --
> >
> > Julien Beguin
> >
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> >
> --
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