Try looking at ?merge If your data is in two dataframes df1 and df2:
merge(df1, df2) (This will merge on SNPID because that column is common to both dataframes). --- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Morassa Mohseni Sent: 24 August 2007 15:41 To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] Merging two files together in R Hi, Thanks in advance for reading this post. I received some affymetrix genotyping data back recently (250K, Nsp array)...However, in order for me to do any analysis on this data set, I need to add append the annotation file to it. Basically I want to do something that looks like this: Snpfile(tab delimited): SNPID Genotype X Y 123 AA 13.4 1.2 456 AB 10.1 12.2 789 BB 2.7 14.4 Annotation file (csv file): rs#, SNPID, Chromosome rs23525, 456, 12 rs78423, 123, 4 rs82342, 789, 9 What I am trying to get is an output file that looks like this: SNPID rs# Chromosome Genotype X Y 123 rs78423 4 AA 13.4 1.2 456 rs23525 12 AB 10.1 12.2 789 rs82342 9 BB 2.7 14.4 The SNPID is the same in both files so I would like to use that to match up...but they are not in the same order in both files, so I want to make sure that I am appending and merging the 2 files correctly. So far all ive really been able to do is import the files into R...Ive been looking through the posts, and was wondering if I could use cbind(...) to merge the files?...not sure though. Thanks again!! Morassa Mohseni PhD Student Johns Hopkins Dept. of Human Genetics Baltimore, MD [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.