Re: [R] matching multiple fields from a matrix

2013-04-16 Thread jercrowley
Hi Arun, This is excellent and elegant. I thought there had to be a relatively simple way to do this. Thank you very much. Jeremy From: arun kirshna [via R] [mailto:ml-node+s789695n4664328...@n4.nabble.com] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 10:34 PM To: Crowley, Jeremy Subject: Re: matching multipl

Re: [R] matching multiple fields from a matrix

2013-04-15 Thread arun
HI, May be this helps: dat1<- read.table(text=" site1 depth1 year1 site2 depth2 year2 10 30 1860 NA NA NA NA NA NA 50 30 1860 10 20 1850  11 20 1850 11 25 1950  12 25 1960 10 NA 1870  12 30 1960 11 25 1880  15 22  1890 14 22 1890  14 25 1880 ",sep="",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE)   res<-merg