hello cecilia, i tried: yn<-y[y$k1%in%x$k1,] xn<-x[x$k1%in%y$k1,] x1st<-unique(match(yn$k1,xn$k1)) y1st<-unique(match(xn$k1,yn$k1)) new<-cbind(k1=intersect(y$k1,x$k1),k2.x=xn[x1st,2],k2.y=yn[y1st,2])
giving: k1 k2.x k2.y [1,] 1 20 10 [2,] 2 22 12 [3,] 3 23 14 [4,] 5 25 16 ...but wih the irregulary duplicated values in k1 i dead-ended and i guess it could get tricky to solve this. greetings, kay ----- ------------------------ Kay Cichini Postgraduate student Institute of Botany Univ. of Innsbruck ------------------------ -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/paired-samples-matching-rows-merge-tp2332352p2332427.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.