Hello, here's a draft of a solution. I hope it's not overly complicated.
# find all possible combinations combi <- expand.grid(Dem$Nom, Rap$Nom); names(combi) <- c("Dem", "Rap") # we need the corresponding departments and units combi$DemDep <- apply(combi, 1, function(x) Dem$Departement[x[1] == Dem$Nom]) combi$DemUni <- apply(combi, 1, function(x) Dem$Unite[x[1] == Dem$Nom]) combi$RapDep <- apply(combi, 1, function(x) Rap$Departement[x[2] == Rap$Nom]) combi$RapUni <- apply(combi, 1, function(x) Rap$Unite[x[2] == Rap$Nom]) # we exclude the combinations that we don't want dep <- combi[combi$DemDep != combi$RapDep, c("Dem", "Rap")] dep$id <- as.numeric(dep$Rap) uni <- combi[combi$DemUni != combi$RapUni, c("Dem", "Rap")] uni$id <- as.numeric(uni$Rap) # preliminary result resDep <- reshape(dep, timevar = "id", idvar = "Dem", direction = "wide" ) resUni <- reshape(uni, timevar = "id", idvar = "Dem", direction = "wide" ) In resDep and resUni you find the results for Rapporteur1 and Rapporteur2. NAs indicate where conditions did not match. For Rap1/Rap2 you can now choose any column from resDep and resUni that is not NA for that specific Demandeur. I wasn't exactly sure about your third condition, so I'll leave that to you. But with the complete possible matches, you have a more general solution. Btw, you can construct data.frames just like this: Dem <- data.frame( Nom = c("John", "Jim", "Julie", "Charles", "Michel", "Emma", "Sandra", "Elodie", "Thierry", "Albert", "Jean", "Francois", "Pierre", "Cyril", "Damien", "Jean-Michel", "Vincent", "Daniel", "Yvan", "Catherine"), Departement = c("D", "A", "A", "C", "D", "B", "D", "B", "C", "D", "B", "B", "B", "A", "C", "D", "B", "A", "D", "D"), Unite = c("Unite8", "Unite4", "Unite4", "Unite7", "Unite9", "Unite1", "Unite6", "Unite5", "Unite7", "Unite3", "Unite2", "Unite6", "Unite8", "Unite8", "Unite3", "Unite8", "Unite9", "Unite7", "Unite9", "Unite5") ) -dk -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] Im Auftrag von Arnaud Michel Gesendet: Dienstag, 14. Oktober 2014 10:46 An: r-help@r-project.org Betreff: [R] To build a new Df from 2 Df Hello I have 2 df Dem and Rap. I would want to build all the df (dfnew) by associating these two df (Dem and Rap) in the following way : For each value of Dem$Nom (dfnew$Demandeur), I associate 2 different values of Rap$Nom (dfnew$Rapporteur1 and dfnew$Rapporteur2) in such a way * for each dfnew$Demandeur, dfnew$Rapporteur1 does not have the same value for Departement as Dem$Departement * for each dfnew$Demandeur, dfnew$Rapporteur2 does not have the same value for Unite as Dem$Unite * the value of table(dfnew$Rapporteur1) and the value of table(dfnew$Rapporteur2) must be balanced and not too different (Accepted differences : 1) table(dfnew$Rapporteur1) Rapporteur01 Rapporteur02 Rapporteur03 Rapporteur04 Rapporteur05 4 4 4 4 4 Thanks for your help Michel Dem <- structure(list(Nom = c("John", "Jim", "Julie", "Charles", "Michel", "Emma", "Sandra", "Elodie", "Thierry", "Albert", "Jean", "Francois", "Pierre", "Cyril", "Damien", "Jean-Michel", "Vincent", "Daniel", "Yvan", "Catherine"), Departement = c("D", "A", "A", "C", "D", "B", "D", "B", "C", "D", "B", "B", "B", "A", "C", "D", "B", "A", "D", "D"), Unite = c("Unite8", "Unite4", "Unite4", "Unite7", "Unite9", "Unite1", "Unite6", "Unite5", "Unite7", "Unite3", "Unite2", "Unite6", "Unite8", "Unite8", "Unite3", "Unite8", "Unite9", "Unite7", "Unite9", "Unite5")), .Names = c("Nom", "Departement", "Unite" ), row.names = c(NA, -20L), class = "data.frame") Rap <- structure(list(Nom = c("Rapporteur01", "Rapporteur02", "Rapporteur03", "Rapporteur04", "Rapporteur05"), Departement = c("C", "D", "C", "C", "D"), Unite = c("Unite10", "Unite6", "Unite5", "Unite5", "Unite4")), .Names = c("Nom", "Departement", "Unite"), row.names = c(NA, -5L), class = "data.frame") dfnew <- structure(list(Demandeur = structure(c(13L, 12L, 14L, 3L, 15L, 8L, 17L, 7L, 18L, 1L, 10L, 9L, 16L, 4L, 5L, 11L, 19L, 6L, 20L, 2L), .Label = c("Albert", "Catherine", "Charles", "Cyril", "Damien", "Daniel", "Elodie", "Emma", "Francois", "Jean", "Jean-Michel", "Jim", "John", "Julie", "Michel", "Pierre", "Sandra", "Thierry", "Vincent", "Yvan"), class = "factor"), Rapporteur1 = structure(c(3L, 1L, 3L, 5L, 1L, 5L, 1L, 2L, 5L, 4L, 2L, 4L, 2L, 3L, 5L, 4L, 4L, 2L, 3L, 1L), .Label = c("Rapporteur01", "Rapporteur02", "Rapporteur03", "Rapporteur04", "Rapporteur05"), class = "factor"), Rapporteur2 = structure(c(1L, 3L, 4L, 4L, 2L, 4L, 5L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 5L, 5L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 5L, 4L, 2L), .Label = c("Rapporteur01", "Rapporteur02", "Rapporteur03", "Rapporteur04", "Rapporteur05"), class = "factor")), .Names = c("Demandeur", "Rapporteur1", "Rapporteur2"), row.names = c(NA, -20L), class = "data.frame") -- Michel ARNAUD Cirad Montpellier [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.