Exactly what results are you expecting? Your 'match' has the same variables
in both locations and will therefore return the first match:
> match(TazProperties..$Props,TazProperties..$Props)
[1] 1 1 1 4 4 4 4 8 8 8 8 8
so you are getting the results that you ask for.
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 5:42 PM, LCOG1 <jr...@lcog.org> wrote:
>
>
> Howdy y'all,
>
> I am looking to use the match function to match a data attribute to another
> data frame but i need it to do so on two criteria to ensure an appropriate
> match. The following matches incorrectly. I know the example looks
> pointless but its just an example. Perhaps there is another way of doing
> this? Thanks
>
> #Sample Data
> Props<-c("p754921","p754921" ,"p754921","p75506" ,"p75506"
> ,"p75506","p75506"
> ,"p75508","p75508","p75508","p75508","p75508")
> TAZ<-c(38,37,37,171,171,282,171,46,46,169,169,169)
> Area<-c(109828.04, 128134.71, 46469.57, 37160.21,
> 40080.50,344679.66,16972.28,
> 342309.558, 260906.870, 17014.659, 7285.706, 10936.316)
> #Creat 1st dataframe
> TazProperties..<-data.frame(Props,TAZ,Area)
> #Sample Data
> Props2<-c("p754921","p754921","p754921","p75506" ,"p75506"
> ,"p75506","p75506" ,"p75508","p75508","p75508","p75508","p75508")
> TAZ2<-c(38,37,37,171,171,282,171,46,46,169,169,169)
> #Create 2nd data frame
> TazProperties2..<-data.frame(Props2,TAZ2)
>
> #match on prop and return area to data frame
>
> TazProperties2..$Area<-TazProperties..$Area[match(TazProperties..$Props,TazProperties..$Props)]
>
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