Ugh, sorry -- I mistakenly said that the latest version of data.table is 1.5.3 which is incorrect, it's 1.6.
-steve On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Steve Lianoglou <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a bit cramped for time right now, so I can't comment on all your > points, but: > > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Johann Hibschman <[email protected]> > wrote: > [snip] > >> Alternatively, since I'm used to the merge.data.frame syntax, if we >> could expand merge.data.table to allow "merge(x, y, by="date", >> all.x=TRUE)" for arbitrary data tables, creating keys as needed, that >> would also help. Perhaps add a "autokey.x" option to enable the >> creation of needed keys. > > It actually does this already -- you can pass in your own column names > to act as keys for the merge operation. > > Is that not working for you? Are you using the latest version of > data.table (1.5.3)? > > If the answers to the two questions above are "no" and "yes" > (respectively), then there is likely a bug ... please let me know. > > -steve > > -- > Steve Lianoglou > Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology > | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center > | Weill Medical College of Cornell University > Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact > -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Weill Medical College of Cornell University Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact _______________________________________________ datatable-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/datatable-help
