Re: [R] Combining text files

2019-12-04 Thread Eric Berger
Continuing with Jeff's point: do you know for certain that the serial number in row 5 of one file corresponds to the 'work order number' in row 5 of a different file? Ideally this could be verified based on some sort of identifier that appears as a column in both files and you could match up corres

Re: [R] Combining text files

2019-12-03 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Do you know for certain that the rows are in the same order? then yes... cbind or bind_cols would do it. I would be surprised to find such files... but it is possible. On December 3, 2019 9:37:34 PM PST, Thomas Subia via R-help wrote: >Colleagues, >I've got several text files which contain dat

[R] Combining text files

2019-12-03 Thread Thomas Subia via R-help
Colleagues, I've got several text files which contain data for each metric I need to report on.One text file contains the serial number data. Another has customer and work order number. Another has test data. All text files have the same number of rows but all have different numbers of columns.