Hi,

ignore my e-mail, a just use tolower function.

thanks and sorry

Ronaldo

Em 11-02-2011 11:24, Ronaldo Reis Junior escreveu:
> Hi,
>
> I have two tables and I need to merge both. I use the merge command, 
> but in this way the name must be exactly. How I can make to compare 
> independently of upper or lower-case?
>
> Look:
>
> data1<-data.frame(journal=c("Ecology","Environmental 
> Entomology","Neotropical Biology And Conservation"))
>
> data2<-data.frame(journal=c("Ecology","Environmental 
> Entomology","Neotropical Biology and 
> Conservation","Sociobiology"),qualis=c("A1","A2","B1","B5"))
>
> merge(data1,data2)
>
> > merge(data1,data2)
>                    journal qualis
> 1                  Ecology     A1
> 2 Environmental Entomology     A2
>
> the expected result is:
>
>                                journal      qualis
> 1                              Ecology          A1
> 2             Environmental Entomology          A2
> 3 Neotropical Biology And Conservation          B1
>
> Look that result is wrong because the "And" and "and" in the name 
> "Neotropical Biology And Conservation"
>
> how to fix it automatically? Has any function to make all names 
> lowercase or any other mean to make this to work.
>
> Thanks
> Ronaldo
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>
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>
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>    

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       --Herman, I. P. 2007. Following the law. NATURE, Vol 445, p. 228.

>  Prof. Ronaldo Reis Júnior
|  .''`. UNIMONTES/DBG/Lab. Ecologia Comportamental e Computacional
| : :'  : Campus Universitário Prof. Darcy Ribeiro, Vila Mauricéia
| `. `'` CP: 126, CEP: 39401-089, Montes Claros - MG - Brasil
|   `- Fone: (38) 3229-8192 | ronaldo.r...@unimontes.br
| http://www.ppgcb.unimontes.br/lecc | LinuxUser#: 205366


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