Re: [R] a merge() problem

2012-10-10 Thread Sam Steingold
> * Prof Brian Ripley [2012-10-08 06:37:07 +0100]: > > On 08/10/2012 02:57, Peter Ehlers wrote: >> On 2012-10-07 14:44, Sam Steingold wrote: * Peter Ehlers [2012-10-07 10:03:42 -0700]: On 2012-10-07 08:34, Sam Steingold wrote: > I know it does not look very good - using the sam

Re: [R] a merge() problem

2012-10-07 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 08/10/2012 02:57, Peter Ehlers wrote: On 2012-10-07 14:44, Sam Steingold wrote: * Peter Ehlers [2012-10-07 10:03:42 -0700]: On 2012-10-07 08:34, Sam Steingold wrote: I know it does not look very good - using the same column names to mean different things in different data frames, but here

Re: [R] a merge() problem

2012-10-07 Thread Peter Ehlers
On 2012-10-07 14:44, Sam Steingold wrote: * Peter Ehlers [2012-10-07 10:03:42 -0700]: On 2012-10-07 08:34, Sam Steingold wrote: I know it does not look very good - using the same column names to mean different things in different data frames, but here you go: --8<---cut here---

Re: [R] a merge() problem

2012-10-07 Thread Sam Steingold
> * Peter Ehlers [2012-10-07 10:03:42 -0700]: > > On 2012-10-07 08:34, Sam Steingold wrote: >> I know it does not look very good - using the same column names to mean >> different things in different data frames, but here you go: >> --8<---cut here---start->8---

Re: [R] a merge() problem

2012-10-07 Thread Peter Ehlers
b #3 3 6 A.K. Yes, because 'b' is _not_ a 'by'-name. Peter Ehlers - Original Message - From: Sam Steingold To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Sunday, October 7, 2012 11:34 AM Subject: [R] a merge() problem I know it does not look very good - using the same col

Re: [R] a merge() problem

2012-10-07 Thread arun
e - From: Sam Steingold To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Sunday, October 7, 2012 11:34 AM Subject: [R] a merge() problem I know it does not look very good - using the same column names to mean different things in different data frames, but here you go: --8<---cut here---

Re: [R] a merge() problem

2012-10-07 Thread Peter Ehlers
On 2012-10-07 08:34, Sam Steingold wrote: I know it does not look very good - using the same column names to mean different things in different data frames, but here you go: --8<---cut here---start->8--- x <- data.frame(a=c(1,2,3),b=c(4,5,6)) y <- data.frame(b

[R] a merge() problem

2012-10-07 Thread Sam Steingold
I know it does not look very good - using the same column names to mean different things in different data frames, but here you go: --8<---cut here---start->8--- > x <- data.frame(a=c(1,2,3),b=c(4,5,6)) > y <- data.frame(b=c(1,2),a=c("a","b")) > merge(x,y,by.x="a