indx <- match(u$nam, v$enter, nomatch = 0) u$coe[indx != 0] <- v$coeff[indx]
Sent from my iPad On Feb 5, 2012, at 15:45, Valerie Moore <vmoore2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have two data frames (u and v). > >> u > coe nam > 1 0 Time > 2 0 Poten > 3 0 AdvExp > 4 0 Share > 5 0 Change > 6 0 Accounts > 7 0 Work > 8 0 Rating > > >> v > coeff enter > 1 0.7272727 Accounts > 2 0.3211112 Time > 3 0.0500123 Poten > > > I want to update the values of coe in u by using the values ofcoeff in v. > That is, I want to get the following result > >> u > coe nam > 1 0.3211112 Time > 2 0.0500123 Poten > 3 0 AdvExp > 4 0 Share > 5 0 Change > 6 0.7272727 Accounts > 7 0 Work > 8 0 Rating > > > OR the following result is also acceptable: > > 0.3211112 0.0500123 0 0 0 0.7272727 0 0 > > > I tried the following, but the result is not right. > replace(coe,colnames,coeff) > [1] 0.7272727 0.0500123 0.3211112 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 > [8] 0.0000000 > > > PLEASE HELP ME. > > THANK YOU VERY MUCH. > > > > > ~valerie > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
