couple of approaches: > merge(data1, data2, by.x=c("V1", "V2"), by.y=c("V2", "V1")) V1 V2 V3 1 47.82 -123.75 11 2 47.82 -123.76 8 > library(sqldf) > sqldf("select * from data2 x2, data1 x1 where x2.V1=x1.V2 and x2.V2=x1.V1") V1 V2 V3 V1 V2 1 -123.76 47.82 8 -123.76 47.82 2 -123.75 47.82 11 -123.75 47.82 >
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Douglas M. Hultstrand <dmhul...@metstat.com>wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to match lat/lon from one dataset with the lat/lon from a > second dataset and use that rows data for calculations. I am using match, > but this is finding the first match and not comparing the pair, how can I > determine if the lat/lon are the same? See example below. Is there a > better way to determine to a matching pair of lat/lon values? > > Example Datasets: > > data2 > V1 V2 V3 > 1 -123.76 47.82 8 > 2 -123.75 47.82 11 > > > data[1:2] > V1 V2 > 1 47.82 -123.76 > 2 47.82 -123.75 > 3 47.82 -123.74 > 4 47.82 -123.73 > > #Subset of current R code : > lat <- data$V1 > lon <- data$V2 > yrs <- c(1,2,5,10,25,50,100,200,500,1000) > lon2 <- data2$V1 > lat2 <- data2$V2 > ppt2 <- data2$V3 > > for(i in 1:length(lat2)) { > loc <- match(lat2[i],lat) > loc2 <- match(lon2[i], lon) > print(loc); print(loc2) > > #Need to test to make sure loc equals loc2 > freq_ppt <- > c(data[i,4],data[i,6],data[i,8],data[i,10],data[i,12],data[i,14],data[i,16],data[i,18],data[i,20],data[i,22]) > print(freq_ppt) > return_value <- approx(freq_ppt,yrs,xout=data2[i,3]) > print(return_value) > } > > > Thanks for your help, > Doug > > -- > --------------------------------- > Douglas M. Hultstrand, MS > Senior Hydrometeorologist > Metstat, Inc. Windsor, Colorado > voice: 970.686.1253 > email: dmhul...@metstat.com > web: http://www.metstat.com > > ______________________________________________ > 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<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? [[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.