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The man page actually states that the data.frame method of the generic merge() has that argument, but it is not guaranteed that other methods will have the same argument list. (read ?UseMethod if that sentence doesn't make sense) In fact, I know xts/zoo don't. Michael On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Lukas Kohl <lukas.k...@univie.ac.at> wrote: > dear r-listers, > > this may be some rally stupid mistake, but googling didn't help me any > further: > >> merge(data1, data2, all.x=T) > > gives back: > : Error in merge(data1, data2, all.x = T) : > : unused argument(s) (all.x = T) > [same with any other argument i try to put in..] > > although the man page states > >>merge(x, y, by = intersect(names(x), names(y)), >> by.x = by, by.y = by, all = FALSE, all.x = all, all.y = all, >> sort = TRUE, suffixes = c(".x",".y"), incomparables = NULL, ...) > > [etc..] > > is this a bug in the merge() function or did i miss something important? > > > > R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16) > > ______________________________________________ > 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.