Hi Peter, Thanks for your reply, I tried to convert my data.table into a data.frame and then merging but I am getting the same error. But when I check the class of my previously data.table object it returns "data.frame".
Any clue as to why this is happening? Regards On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 7:13 PM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 13 May 2014, at 14:34 , 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? > > You are using merge.data.frame syntax for merge.data.table. The latter > knows about by=, but not by.x= and by.y= (so presumably you need to rename > variables in x or y). > > - Peter > > > > Any help will be appreciated > > > > > > -- > > Regards > > Abhinaba Roy > > > > [[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. > > -- > Peter Dalgaard, Professor > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > Phone: (+45)38153501 > Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com > > -- Regards Abhinaba Roy Statistician Radix Analytics Pvt. Ltd Ahmedabad [[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.