Thanks for the help -- merge.data.table was being used!


On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Steve Lianoglou <
mailinglist.honeypot@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ted,
>
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Ted Rosenbaum <ted.rosenbaum@yale.edu>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am trying to use the merge command in the data.tables package.
> > However, when I run the command I am not sure if it is running the merge
> > command from the base package or the merge command from data.tables.
> > When I run "methods(generic.function="merge")' it informs me that
> > 'merge.data.table" is "non-visible".
> > I am just trying to run the merge command on two data tables using the
> > index, is there anything else that I need to do (my googling has simply
> left
> > me uncertain about how to get this to work).
> > Thanks for your help!
>
> Assuming everything is "normal", I'm going to bet the merge.data.table
> function is the one that is being used.
>
> Assuming you are using version <= 1.5.3, though, an easy way to check
> is to see if the result of the merge ignores the `suffixes` argument.
> The behavior of merge is being changed for the next version, but this
> "feature" is an easy way for you to check which merge function is
> being used in the current version ;-)
>
> Hope that helps,
> -steve
>
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> Steve Lianoglou
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