Hello again, Let say I have a data.frame which I call as reference data frame :
Ref = data.frame(c("a", "d", "c", "e", "f", "x"), matrix(NA, 6, 5)) colnames(Ref) = c("a1", "a2", "a3", "a4", "a5", "a6") Ref Now I have another data.frame, which I call as value data frame : Value = data.frame(c("x", "c"), matrix(1:10, 2, 5)) colnames(Value) = c("a1", "b2", "b3", "b4", "b5", "b6") Value Now I need to insert the values of my 'Value' data frame into my 'Ref' data frame, according to the order of the column of 'a1' of 'Ref'. For example, the NA values of last row of Ref will be (1, 3, 5, 7, 9) and 3rd row of Ref will be (2, 4, 6, 8, 10). Basically I am matching the "a1" column of both my data frames. If there is no match found then corresponding row of Ref will remain unchanged. Is there any R way to perform the same programmatically. In reality both my data frames are quite big, so looking for some automated way to perform the same. Thanks for your time. Regards, ______________________________________________ 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.