Re: [R] merge with origin information in new variable names

2011-04-25 Thread Phil Spector
Eric - As others have said, you should change the names of the variables in the data frames before you merge them. Here's one implementation of that idea: DF.wave.1 <- data.frame(id=1:10,var.A=sample(letters[1:4],10,TRUE)) DF.wave.2 <- data.frame(id=1:10,var.M=sample(letters[5:8],10,TR

Re: [R] merge with origin information in new variable names

2011-04-25 Thread Eric Fail
Is there anyone out there who can suggest a way to solve this problem? Thanks, Esben On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > Merge only lets you combine two tables at a time, but it does have a > "suffix" argument that is intended to address your concern, but only for > variable

Re: [R] merge with origin information in new variable names

2011-04-24 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Merge only lets you combine two tables at a time, but it does have a "suffix" argument that is intended to address your concern, but only for variable names that would conflict. In your example, the id variables are all sequenced exactly the same, so you could actually use cbind rather than mer

[R] merge with origin information in new variable names

2011-04-24 Thread Eric Fail
Dear R-list, Here is my simple question, I have n data frames that I would like to merge, but I can't figure out how to add information about the origin of the variable(s). Here is my problem, DF.wave.1 <- data.frame(id=1:10,var.A=sample(letters[1:4],10,TRUE)) DF.wave.2 <- data.frame(id=1:10,va