> PS: Just a related side-question: Why is merge_all not included in the > "newer" package reshape2 as this is considered to be a reboot of the > reshape package?
Because it doesn't work very well, as you've discovered. There's an equivalent join_all in plyr. Hadley -- Chief Scientist, RStudio http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ 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.