The problem in the original post is, as clearly stated , the ":=", which is some other language, not R. From which I infer that the OP needs to spend some additional time with an R tutorial or two to learn R.
Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Ulrik Stervbo <ulrik.ster...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Shivi, > > I usually do > > merge.salaries$name <- paste(merge.salaries$nameFirst, > merge.salaries$nameLast) > > also if merge.salaries[, name:=paste("nameFirst","nameLast")] would work, > you would end up with a column full of "nameFirst nameLast". > > Best, > Ulrik > > On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 at 17:32 SHIVI BHATIA <shivi.bha...@safexpress.com> > wrote: > >> HI Team, >> >> >> >> Need help with the below syntax. >> >> >> >> merge.salaries[, name:=paste("nameFirst","nameLast")]. Here merge.salaries >> is the data set I have merged. >> >> >> >> There are 2 columns nameFirst and nameLast I need to merge these two into >> one and name as name however I can getting an error: >> >> >> >> Error in `[.data.frame`(merge.salaries, , `:=`(name, paste("nameFirst", : >> >> could not find function ":=" >> >> >> >> Please advice. >> >> >> >> Thanks, Shivi >> >> Mb: 9891002021 >> >> >> >> This e-mail is confidential. It may also be legally privileged. If you are >> not the addressee you may not copy, forward, disclose or use any part of >> it. If you have received this message in error, please delete it and all >> copies from your system and notify the sender immediately by return e-mail. >> Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be timely, secure, error or >> virus-free. The sender does not accept liability for any errors or >> omissions. >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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.