On 05/07/2013 04:33 PM, jpm miao wrote:
Hi,
From time to time I merge two dataframes with possibly a common field.
Then the common field is no longer present,but what are present fieldname.x
and fieldname.y. How can I fix the problem so that I can still call by the
orignal fieldname? If you don't understand my problem, please see the
example below.
Thanks
Miao
d1
a b c
1 1 4 5
2 2 5 6
3 3 6 7
d2
d a f b
1 6 1 8 4
2 7 2 9 5
3 8 3 10 6
d3<-merge(d1, d2, by="b")
d3
b a.x c d a.y f
1 4 1 5 6 1 8
2 5 2 6 7 2 9
3 6 3 7 8 3 10
d3["a"]
Error in `[.data.frame`(d3, "a") : undefined columns selected
d3["a.x"]
a.x
1 1
2 2
3 3
Hi jpm miao,
Because you have a column named "a" in both data frames, the merge
function adds ".x" and ".y" to the fields with common names. You could
change the name of one column, for example, change the name of the "a"
column in d2 to "e". You could also drop one of the "a" columns in this
case as the two columns are identical.
d3<-merge(d1, d2[,c("d","f","b")], by="b")
Jim
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