Re: [R] possible reason for merge not working

2011-08-01 Thread world peace
the answer was indeed in subtle differences, and 'str' did help. Problem is solved. Thanks everybody for comments which was all very useful. Best, On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 12:25 PM, jim holtman wrote: > What you "see" and what the data really is may be two different > things.  You should have at

Re: [R] possible reason for merge not working

2011-08-01 Thread David Winsemius
On Aug 1, 2011, at 12:17 PM, world peace wrote: Hi Guys, working on a "merge" for 2 data frames. Using the command: x <- merge(annotatedData, UCSCgenes, by.x="names", by.y="Ensembl.Gene.ID", all.x=TRUE) names and Ensembl.Gene.ID are columns with similar elements from the x and y data frames

Re: [R] possible reason for merge not working

2011-08-01 Thread Jean V Adams
Jean `·.,, ><(((º> `·.,, ><(((º> `·.,, ><(((º> Jean V. Adams Statistician U.S. Geological Survey Great Lakes Science Center 223 East Steinfest Road Antigo, WI 54409 USA From: world peace To: r-help@r-project.org Date: 08/01/2011 11:24 AM Subject: [R] possible reason

Re: [R] possible reason for merge not working

2011-08-01 Thread jim holtman
What you "see" and what the data really is may be two different things. You should have at least enclosed an 'str' of the two data frames; even better would be a subset of the data using 'dput'. Most likely your problem is that your data is not what you 'expect' it to be. On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at

[R] possible reason for merge not working

2011-08-01 Thread world peace
Hi Guys, working on a "merge" for 2 data frames. Using the command: x <- merge(annotatedData, UCSCgenes, by.x="names", by.y="Ensembl.Gene.ID", all.x=TRUE) names and Ensembl.Gene.ID are columns with similar elements from the x and y data frames. annotatedData has 8909 entries, so has x(as expec