thank you, this code works: library(plyr) join(dat1,dat2,by=c("cu.nr.","name"),type="right")
but my dat2 frame has a lot of columns, which i don't want to match. How can i say, that only the column "value" should be match to dat1 ? Thank you. Mat -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/match-in-dependence-of-2-columns-tp4658405p4658508.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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.