You need to show, not tell, what you did to get better answers. Did you use the all=TRUE argument to merge()?
> df <- data.frame(A=c(10,11,12),B=c(5,5,4),C=c(3.3,4,3),time=as.Date(c("1990-01-01","1990-02-07","1990-02-14"))) 0 > merge(df, data.frame(time=seq(as.Date("1990-01-01"), to=as.Date("1990-02-15"), by="days")), all.y=TRUE) time A B C 1 1990-01-01 10 5 3.3 2 1990-01-02 NA NA NA 3 1990-01-03 NA NA NA ... 36 1990-02-05 NA NA NA 37 1990-02-06 NA NA NA 38 1990-02-07 11 5 4.0 39 1990-02-08 NA NA NA ... Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 8:26 PM, lily li <chocol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, I tried to create a dataframe and merge it with the shortened > dataframe. The resulting dataframe goes with the short one and truncates > the complete date column, so it does not work. > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 6:38 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> > wrote: > > > > > > On Jul 20, 2016, at 1:31 PM, lily li <chocol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hi R users, > > > > > > I have a dataframe, where there is a column 'time' represents time > series > > > but is not complete. How to expand the dataframe so this column will > > become > > > complete, where other columns with the newly added rows have NA values? > > > Thanks. > > > > > > df > > > A B C time > > > 10 5 3.3 1990-01-01 > > > 11 5 4 1990-02-07 > > > 12 4 3 1990-02-14 > > > ... > > > > Make a dataframe with a 'time' column using seq.Date and merge that > > dataframe with your df dataframe. > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > Really .... isn't it time you learned how to send plain text. You've > > posted many questions on Rhelp. It's really not that difficult on > gmail. I > > also have a gmail account and have had no difficulty finding instructions > > on how to do it. > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > David Winsemius > > Alameda, CA, USA > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.