Have a look at merge. Ciao Vittorio >----Messaggio originale---- >Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Data: 23-giu-2006 18.10 >A: "r-help"<r- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Ogg: [R] rearranging data frame rows > >Hi All, > >I have two data frames. The first contains data about a number of individuals, >coded in the first column with a name, in an order I find convenient. > >The second contains different data about the same indivduals, in a different >order. Both data frame have the individual names in the first column. > >I need to reorder the second data frame so the rows are rearranged in the same >manner as the fist. How? > >I cannot turn the individual names in a numeric vairable with >as.numeric (data1[,1]), because the two data frames are subset of different data, >so the the factor levels are way off between the two. I think I need to actually >use the names as a index. > >Cheers, > >Fede > >-- >Federico C. F. Calboli >Department of Epidemiology and Public Health >Imperial College, St Mary's Campus >Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG > >Tel +44 (0)20 7594 1602 Fax (+44) 020 7594 3193 > >f.calboli [.a. t] imperial.ac.uk >f.calboli [.a.t] gmail.com > >______________________________________________ >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ch mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >
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