Because merge.data.table expects both objects to be data.table objects?
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On May 13, 2014 5:34:32 AM PDT, Abhinaba Roy <abhinabaro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi R-helpers,
>
>I am trying the following code in R
>
>merge(x=Master1,y=demo_dtls,by.x=c("ID_CASE","ts"),by.y=c("ID_CASE","TS_EVENT"))
>
>where,
>
>class(demo_dtls$TS_EVENT)
>[1] "POSIXct" "POSIXt"
>class(Master1$ts)
>[1] "POSIXct" "POSIXt"
>
>and
>
>> class(Master1)[1] "data.table" "data.frame"> class(demo_dtls)[1]
>"data.frame"
>
>
>But I am getting the following error
>
>Error in merge.data.table(x = Master1, y = demo_dtls, by.x =
>c("ID_CASE", :
> Can not match keys in x and y to automatically determine appropriate
>`by` parameter. Please set `by` value explicitly.
>
>Why am I getting this error?
>Any help will be appreciated
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