[R-sig-Geo] merging data with a dataframe based on a common identifier

[stephen sefick]

I have used v.strahler in GRASS to calculate the stream order.  This
module writes its results to a text file.  The line column of the
output data is the common name between the two data sets.  I would
like to attach the stream order to the streams vector.  I have looked
at the data once in R with

pseudocode:
streams <- readVECT6("streams")
str(streams)

and it is a huge list.  I am not sure the best way to tackle this problem.
thanks for any help,

-- 
Stephen Sefick

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so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and
make us feel like gods.  We are mammals, and have not exhausted the
annoying little problems of being mammals.

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