Merge only lets you combine two tables at a time, but it does have a "suffix" argument that is intended to address your concern, but only for variable names that would conflict.

In your example, the id variables are all sequenced exactly the same, so you could actually use cbind rather than merge.

However, whether you use merge or cbind, I think the most direct route to your desired result is to rename the data columns before you combine them, using the names function on the left hand side of an assignment with a vector of new names on the right.
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Eric Fail <eric.fail@gmx.com> wrote:

Dear R-list, Here is my simple question, I have n data frames that I would like to merge, but I can't figure out how to add information about the origin of the variable(s). Here is my problem, DF.wave.1 <- data.frame(id=1:10,var.A=sample(letters[1:4],10,TRUE)) DF.wave.2 <- data.frame(id=1:10,var.M=sample(letters[5:8],10,TRUE)) DF.wave.3 <- data.frame(id=1:10,var.A=sample(letters[5:8],10,TRUE)) Now; I would like to merge the three dataframes into one, but append a suffix to the individual variables names about thir origin. DF.wave.all <- merge(DF.wave.1,DF.wave.2,DF.wave.3,by="id", [what to do here]) In other words, I would like it to loook like this. DF.wave.all id var.A.wave.1 var.M.wave.2 var.A.wave.3 1 1 c h j 2 2 c e j 3 3 c g k 4 4 c e j 5 5 c g i 6 6 d e k 7 7 c h k 8 8 b g j 9 9 b f i 10 10 d h i Is there a command I can use directly in merge? 'suffixes' isn't really handy here. Thanks, Eric_____________________________________________
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