On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, AA wrote: > 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.
Exactly. Threats like this: "Do a search! RTFM! Or we will kick your ass!" But typically we try to avoid "threats" in "threads" on R-help...maybe that is not always possible ;-) Sorry, just kidding, couldn't resist... Z > 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. > > ______________________________________________ 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.