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On June 13, 2015 8:17:35 PM PDT, Adrian Johnson <oriolebaltim...@gmail.com> wrote: >Dear group: > >I have two data frames. The column names of the two data frame has >some common variables but not identical. > >my aim is to make 2 DFs more uniform by taking union of both colnames > > >For example: I have x1 and x2 matrices: > >> x1 > Subject A B C D >1 x1 1.5 -1.3 0.4 -0.2 >2 x2 -1.2 -0.3 0.3 -0.1 >> x2 > Subject A D F H >1 x1 4.3 -2.4 1.3 -2.3 >2 x2 2.4 0.1 0.5 -1.4 > > cases = c('A','B','C','D','F','H') > >for X2 I want to create newX2 DF. > >> x3 > Subject A B C D F H >1 x1 4.3 NA NA -2.4 1.3 -2.3 >2 x2 2.4 NA NA 0.1 0.5 -1.4 > > >Since B and C are no existing in x2, I put NAs. > >how can I create x3 matrix? > > > >dput code: > >x1 = structure(list(Subject = c("x1", "x2"), A = c(1.5, -1.2), B = >c(-1.3, >-0.3), C = c(0.4, 0.3), D = c(-0.2, -0.1)), .Names = c("Subject", >"A", "B", "C", "D"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, >-2L)) > >x2 = structure(list(Subject = c("x1", "x2"), A = c(4.3, 2.4), D = >c(-2.4, >0.1), F = c(1.3, 0.5), H = c(-2.3, -1.4)), .Names = c("Subject", >"A", "D", "F", "H"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, >-2L)) > > >Could you please help how to create x3 with NAs incorporated. >adrian. > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.