Read the posting guide... you need to provide more specific information such as sample data (?dput).
For this problem you should probably read ?merge --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. "Hon Kit (Stephen) Wong" <hon...@stanford.edu> wrote: >Dear Experienced R users, > >I have a looks-like simple but complicated problem urgently needed to >be solved. Below is the detail: > >I have two dataframes, df1, df2. df1 contains two column and many >thousands rows: column 1 is a "gene_name", column 2 is "value". df2 >contains only one column which is "gene_name" with couple hundred rows. >I want to change "value" of df2 for those "gene_name" also appear in >df2 "gene_name". How to do that? Millions thanks. > > >Ste > >______________________________________________ >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.