How about: > merge(myframe2, environ2, all.x=TRUE, by.x=c("ID", "myframestime"), > by.y=c("ID", "envirotime")) ID myframestime Hunger Temp Rain 1 Bert 2012-09-24 10:00:00 2 <NA> <NA> 2 Bert 2012-09-25 10:00:00 2 27 2 3 Ernie 2012-09-24 09:00:00 1 25 0.1 4 Ernie 2012-09-25 09:00:00 1 30 5
No need to feel dumb, but learning to use rseek.org to search for R topics might help you solve some of your own problems. In this case searching for merge data frames gives you all sorts of useful information. And thank you for providing a simple reproducible example! Sarah On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Tagmarie <ramga...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hello, > Once again I feel so dumb. Can anyone help me? > I have a data frame somewhat like that: > > myframe <- data.frame (ID=c("Ernie", "Ernie", "Bert", "Bert"), > Timestamp=c("24.09.2012 09:00", "25.09.2012 09:00", "24.09.2012 10:00", > "25.09.2012 10:00"), Hunger=c("1","1","2","2") ) > myframestime <- as.POSIXct (strptime(as.character(myframe$Timestamp), > "%d.%m.%Y %H:%M"), tz="GMT") > myframe2 <- cbind (myframe,myframestime) > myframe2$Timestamp <- NULL > > Now I have a second dataframe with environmental variables. Something like > this: > > environ <- data.frame (ID=c("Ernie", "Ernie", "Bert"), > Timestamp=c("24.09.2012 09:00", "25.09.2012 09:00", "25.09.2012 10:00"), > Temp=c("25","30","27"), Rain =c ("0.1", "5", "2")) > envirotime <- as.POSIXct (strptime(as.character(environ$Timestamp), > "%d.%m.%Y %H:%M"), tz="GMT") > environ2 <- cbind (environ,envirotime) > environ2$Timestamp <- NULL > > How do I merge or handle the two data frames at the respective lines so that > I get the data (Temp, Rain) at the correct line with (Hunger)? > > -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ 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.