I knew it should be simple ..... but only if you know how!!

Thanks, works a treat!!
Nathan

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On 27/01/2010 11:03 AM, Phil Spector wrote:
Nathan -
     One way would be

          df$id[match(v,df$Name)]


                                        - Phil Spector
                                         Statistical Computing Facility
                                         Department of Statistics
                                         UC Berkeley
                                         spec...@stat.berkeley.edu

On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Nathan S. Watson-Haigh wrote:

This must be easy to do.....

I have a vector and a lookup data.frame:

v
  [1] "5"   "234"   "234"   "42-43"   "234"   "42-43"   "234"   "234"
"42-43"   "234"   "5"   "234"   "234"   "5"   "234"   "234"   "5"   "234"
"234"
df
  id  Name
1         5 12-13
2         2   234
3         4 42-43
4         1     5

How can I simply substitute the values in vector v with the corresponding id
value from lookup table df? I'd expect the following output:
v
  [1] "1"   "2"   "2"   "4"   "2"   "4"   "2"   "2"   "4"   "2"   "1"   "2"
"2"   "1"   "2"   "2"   "1"   "2"   "2"

Cheers,
Nathan

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Fax: +61 (0)7 4753 8600
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