There is a merge function in the "zoo" package that deals with time series. There have been couple of threats about it recently. Do a search. Specially look for solutions proposed by Gabor Grothendieck regarding merge in those threats. (It was very helpful for me Tnx to Gabor). you could begin by ?merge.zoo Good Luck. AA. ----- Original Message ----- From: "stephen sefick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Erik Iverson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <r-help@r-project.org> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 5:37 PM Subject: Re: [R] union of two data frames
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:35 PM, stephen sefick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> DateTime var1 var2 var3 var4 var5 var6 >> . . . . . . . >> . . . . . . . >> . . . . . . . >> 1/5/06 1 2 3 4 5 6 >> 1/6/06 1 2 3 4 5 6 >> 1/7/06 3 4 5 6 7 8 >> 1/8/06 4 5 6 7 8 9 >> >> >> >> DateTime var1 var2 var3 var4 var5 var6 >> 1/5/06 1 2 3 4 5 6 >> 1/6/06 1 2 3 4 5 6 >> 1/7/06 3 4 5 6 7 8 >> 1/8/06 4 5 6 7 8 9 >> . . . . . . . >> . . . . . . . >> . . . . . . . >> >> >> I would like to combine two data frames similar to these > > into this > DateTime var1 var2 var3 var4 var5 var6 >> . . . . . . . >> . . . . . . . >> . . . . . . . >> 1/5/06 1 2 3 4 5 6 >> 1/6/06 1 2 3 4 5 6 >> 1/7/06 3 4 5 6 7 8 >> 1/8/06 4 5 6 7 8 9 >> . . . . . . . >> . . . . . . . >> . . . . . . . >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Erik Iverson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > You probably need to provide an example here, show us your data.frame >> > column names, and what you mean by 'common subset of the same data' >> at >> > least. What did you try and what did it do that you didn't expect? >> > >> > >> > >> > stephen sefick wrote: >> > > I have a thirty thousand row data frame imported from excel and a >> > > 60,000 row data frame imported from excel. they share a common >> subset >> > > of the same data and I would like to combine the two into one data >> > > frame merged together on the data in common. I have looked at the >> > > help file for merge and intersect and cbind and rbind etc... And I >> > > can't figure it out. Thanks in advance >> > > >> > > Stephen >> > > >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are >> so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and >> make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the >> annoying little problems of being mammals. >> >> -K. >> Mullis >> > > > > -- > Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are > so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and > make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the > annoying little problems of being mammals. > > -K. Mullis > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
