Hello everyone,
I have two questions:
1)
I want to create a subset of a data frame column-wise and simultaneously
extract the row names into a "proper" variable. I tried this, but received
an error:
> myleft<-mydata[c(id=row.names(mydata),"workshop","gender","q1","q2")]
Error in `[.data.frame`(mydata, c(id = row.names(mydata), "workshop", :
undefined columns selected
Is the following the best way to go about this:
>
myleft<-data.frame(id=row.names(mydata),mydata)[c("id","workshop","gender","q1","q2")]
> myleft
2)
Is it possible to merge data using merge() with a by variable that is the
row names? I tried this:
> both<-merge(myleft,myright,by=row.names(myleft))
Error in fix.by(by.x, x) : 'by' must specify valid column(s)
> both
Suggestions?
Thanks!
Dan
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