No I think the OP wants mer <- merge(Elder, Younger)
Br. Frede -------- Oprindelig meddelelse -------- Fra: "Adams, Jean" Dato:16/01/2014 15.45 (GMT+01:00) Til: kingsly Cc: R help Emne: Re: [R] Doubt in simple merge You are telling it to merge by ID only. But it sounds like you would like it to merge by both ID and age. merge(Elder, Younger, all=TRUE) Jean On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 6:25 AM, kingsly <ecoking...@yahoo.co.in> wrote: > Dear R community > > I have a two data set called "Elder" and "Younger". > This is my code for simple merge. > > Elder <- data.frame( > ID=c("ID1","ID2","ID3"), > age=c(38,35,31)) > Younger <- data.frame( > ID=c("ID4","ID5","ID3"), > age=c(29,21,31)) > > mer <- merge(Elder,Younger,by="ID", all=T) > > Output I am expecting: > > ID age > ID1 38 > ID2 35 > ID3 31 > ID4 29 > ID5 21 > > It looks very simple. But I need help. > When I run the code it gives me age.x and age.y. > thank you > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Doubt-in-simple-merge-tp4683671.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.