It is unclear what the problem is. Does following code solve your append problem?
fmt = "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M" fname <- "new.txt" #records = 2904 newfile <- read.csv(fname, header = TRUE, sep = ",", skip=0, colClasses = c(rep("character",2), rep("numeric", 16)) ) newfile.comb <- cbind(newfile[2], newfile[3]) fname <- "old.txt" #records = 73768 oldfile <- read.table(fname, header = FALSE, sep = "\t", dec = ".", colClasses = c("character","numeric","NULL"), skip = 0) names(oldfile)[1] <- names(newfile)[2] names(oldfile)[2] <- names(newfile)[3] combo.file = rbind(oldfile,newfile.comb) #records = 76672 edit(combo.file) AA On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:27 AM, knavero <knav...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here is the data I'm working with: > > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4530888/new.txt new.txt > > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4530888/old.txt old.txt > > My code is here: > > http://pastebin.com/9jjs6Ahr > > I'm looking for away to simply attach the new.txt to the bottom of old.txt > through R, else I'll just throw it in Excel to do some preprocessing. I've > looked into using merge, cbind, concatenate, and rbind. However, I'm > running > into problems where the 2012 data keeps ending up on top before the 2010 > and > 2011 data or the function just adds more extra columns to the right side. > Is > there a simple method of doing this? Thanks. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Trying-to-merge-new-data-set-to-bottom-of-old-data-set-Both-are-zoo-objects-tp4530888p4530888.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[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.