I forgot to mention that I tried with "merge" and "join" (package analogue) without success...
Julien Selon Julien Beguin <julien.begui...@ulaval.ca>, 31.07.2009: > Dear all, > > I am trying to merge two data frames based on a common column but for this > common column both data frame do not have the same length and associated > information. I checked previous exemples in the list but was not able to > apply > them in my case... Is someone know how to do that? Below is my code with the > expected result: > > # data frame 1 > Id1 <- c(1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3) > Habit1 <- c('a','a','a','b','b','b','d','d','d') > Id01 <- paste(Id1, Habit1,sep=".") > data1 <- data.frame(Id01) > > # data frame 2 > Id2 <- c(1,2,3,3) > Habit2 <- c('a','b','d','d') > Id02 <- paste(Id2, Habit2,sep=".") > Area <- c(10,2,3,5) > data2 <- data.frame(cbind(Id02, Area)) > > # result that I would like > Area2 <- c(10, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 3, 5, 0) > result <- data.frame(cbind(Id01, Area2)) > > Thank's > > -- > > Julien Beguin > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > 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. > > -- Julien Beguin Etudiant au doctorat Faculté de Foresterie et de Géomatique Université Laval, local 2113 2405 rue de la Terrasse, G1V 0A6 Québec (Qc) Tel: (418) 656-2131 poste 2620 http://www.cen.ulaval.ca/anticosti/jbeguin.html ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.