Re: [R] Help on merging without a common variable

Hi OTOH I wonder why cbind gives error as OP told us x <- data.frame(x = 1:5) y <- data.frame(y = 6:15) merge(x,y) cbind(x,y) Gives different results but without any error. Regards Petr > > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Ayyappa Chaturvedula > wrote: > > Michael, > > Thank you for this ,

Re: [R] Help on merging without a common variable

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Ayyappa Chaturvedula wrote: > Michael, > Thank you for this , it worked. I was thinking "by" is a required argument > in merge function. > Well, it is "required" in a strict sense, but it has a default value (defaulting to the shared names) so _you_ don't have to

Re: [R] Help on merging without a common variable

You can merge without a common variable: x <- data.frame(x = 1:5) y <- data.frame(y = 6:10) merge(x,y) works just fine (for one set of expectations) If you need more help, please do make a reproducible example (as requested of all R-help posts): the instructions here might help http://stackove