Re: [R] merge multiple data frames

2012-04-10 Thread David M. Schruth

Sorry this is so late:

But you could try a nerge (from the 'caroline' package)

nerge(list(a,b,c))

Just have to make sure that the rows for each dataframe are renamed with 
the date columns.



On 1/30/2012 11:44 PM, Massimo Bressan wrote:

thanks don
I have here enough to study for a while
thank you for your help
max
- Original Message - From: MacQueen, Don macque...@llnl.gov
To: Massimo Bressan mbres...@arpa.veneto.it; r-help@r-project.org
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: [R] merge multiple data frames



Does this example help? It doesn't handle the problem of common field
names, but see below for another example.

df1 - data.frame(jn=1:4, a1=letters[1:4], a2=LETTERS[1:4])
df2 - data.frame(jn=2:6, b1=month.abb[2:6])
df3 - data.frame(jn=3:7, x=rnorm(5), y=13:17)

dfn - sqldf('select * from df1 left join df2 using (jn) left join df3
using (jn)')

In this example, you automatically get all fields from all three data
frames, without having to name them in the SQL statement -- but you
should
not have common names.


To deal with common names, I myself would probably rename the
variables in
the data frames before trying to merge.

A general method would be something like:
nms1 - names(df1)
nms1[nms1 != 'date'] - paste(nms1[nms1 != 'date'],'.1',sep='')
names(df1) - nms1
Of course it has to be done for every data frame, but this can be put
in a
loop, if necessary.


However, here is an example where I have changed df1 and df2; they both
have a field named 'aa', in addition to the matching field.

df1 - data.frame(jn=1:4, aa=letters[1:4], a2=LETTERS[1:4])
df2 - data.frame(jn=2:6, aa=month.abb[2:6])
df3 - data.frame(jn=3:7, x=rnorm(5), y=13:17)

dfn - sqldf('select jn, df1.aa aa1, df2.aa aa2,
a2, x, y
from df1 left join df2 using (jn) left join df3 using (jn)')

By the way, you can still select *, even with common names:


dfx - sqldf('select * from df1 left join df2 using (jn) left join df3
using (jn)')but you might not like the result. Try it and see!




It's my understanding that in the current SQL definition 'as' is no
longer
required when changing field names (though it is also still allowed in
the
databases I work with, Oracle and MySQL). Perhaps sqldf does not allow
it.
I don't know.

Hope this helps.

-Don



--
Don MacQueen

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
7000 East Ave., L-627
Livermore, CA 94550
925-423-1062





On 1/30/12 4:40 AM, Massimo Bressan mbres...@arpa.veneto.it wrote:


hi don

I followed your advice about using sqldf package but the problem of
labelling the fields persists;
for some reasons I can not properly handle the sql 'as' statement

a_b-sqldf(select a.*, b.* from a left join b on a.date=b.date)
a_b_c-sqldf(select a_b.*, c.* from a_b left join c on
a_b.date=c.date)

bye

max





- Original Message -
From: MacQueen, Don macque...@llnl.gov
To: maxbre mbres...@arpa.veneto.it; r-help@r-project.org
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: [R] merge multiple data frames


Not tested, but this might be a case for the sqldf package.

-Don

--
Don MacQueen

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
7000 East Ave., L-627
Livermore, CA 94550
925-423-1062





On 1/26/12 9:29 AM, maxbre mbres...@arpa.veneto.it wrote:


This is my reproducible example (three data frames: a, b, c)

a-structure(list(date = structure(1:6, .Label = c(2012-01-03,
2012-01-04, 2012-01-05, 2012-01-06, 2012-01-07, 2012-01-08,
2012-01-09, 2012-01-10, 2012-01-11, 2012-01-12, 2012-01-13,
2012-01-14, 2012-01-15, 2012-01-16, 2012-01-17, 2012-01-18,
2012-01-19, 2012-01-20, 2012-01-21, 2012-01-22, 2012-01-23
), class = factor), so2 = c(0.799401398190476, 0, 0,
0.0100453950434783,
0.200154920565217, 0.473866969181818), nox = c(111.716109973913,
178.077239330435, 191.257829021739, 50.6799951473913, 115.284643540435,
110.425185027727), no = c(48.8543691516522, 88.7197448817391,
93.9931932472609, 13.9759949817391, 43.1395266865217, 41.7280296016364
), no2 = c(36.8673432865217, 42.37150668, 47.53311701,
29.3026882474783,
49.2986070321739, 46.5978461731818), co = c(0.618856168125,
0.99659347508,
0.66698741608, 0.38343731117, 0.281604928875, 0.155383408913043
), o3 = c(12.1393100029167, 12.3522739816522, 10.9908791203043,
26.9122200013043, 13.8421695947826, 12.3788847045455), ipa =
c(167.541954974667,
252.7196257875, 231.802370709167, 83.4850259595833, 174.394613581667,
173.868599272609), ws = c(1.47191016429167, 0.765781205208333,
0.937053086791667, 1.581022406625, 0.909756802125, 0.959252831695652
), wd = c(45.2650019737732, 28.2493544114369, 171.049080544214,
319.753674830936, 33.8713897347193, 228.368119533759), temp =
c(7.9197282588,
3.79434291520833, 2.1287644735, 6.733854600625, 3.136579722,
3.09864120704348), umr = c(86.11566638875, 94.5034087491667,
94.14451249375, 53.1016709004167, 65.63420423, 74.955669236087
)), .Names = c(date, so2, nox, no, no2, co, o3,
ipa, ws, wd, temp, umr), row.names = c(NA, 6L), class =
data.frame)


b-structure(list

Re: [R] merge multiple data frames

2012-01-31 Thread Massimo Bressan

thanks don
I have here enough to study for a while
thank you for your help
max
- Original Message - 
From: MacQueen, Don macque...@llnl.gov

To: Massimo Bressan mbres...@arpa.veneto.it; r-help@r-project.org
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: [R] merge multiple data frames



Does this example help? It doesn't handle the problem of common field
names, but see below for another example.

df1 - data.frame(jn=1:4, a1=letters[1:4], a2=LETTERS[1:4])
df2 - data.frame(jn=2:6, b1=month.abb[2:6])
df3 - data.frame(jn=3:7, x=rnorm(5), y=13:17)

dfn - sqldf('select * from df1 left join df2 using (jn) left join df3
using (jn)')

In this example, you automatically get all fields from all three data
frames, without having to name them in the SQL statement -- but you should
not have common names.


To deal with common names, I myself would probably rename the variables in
the data frames before trying to merge.

A general method would be something like:
 nms1 - names(df1)
 nms1[nms1 != 'date'] - paste(nms1[nms1 != 'date'],'.1',sep='')
 names(df1) - nms1
Of course it has to be done for every data frame, but this can be put in a
loop, if necessary.


However, here is an example where I have changed df1 and df2; they both
have a field named 'aa', in addition to the matching field.

df1 - data.frame(jn=1:4, aa=letters[1:4], a2=LETTERS[1:4])
df2 - data.frame(jn=2:6, aa=month.abb[2:6])
df3 - data.frame(jn=3:7, x=rnorm(5), y=13:17)

dfn - sqldf('select jn, df1.aa aa1, df2.aa aa2,
 a2, x, y
  from df1 left join df2 using (jn) left join df3 using (jn)')

By the way, you can still select *, even with common names:


 dfx - sqldf('select *   from df1 left join df2 using (jn) left join df3
using (jn)')but you might not like the result. Try it and see!




It's my understanding that in the current SQL definition 'as' is no longer
required when changing field names (though it is also still allowed in the
databases I work with, Oracle and MySQL). Perhaps sqldf does not allow it.
I don't know.

Hope this helps.

-Don



--
Don MacQueen

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
7000 East Ave., L-627
Livermore, CA 94550
925-423-1062





On 1/30/12 4:40 AM, Massimo Bressan mbres...@arpa.veneto.it wrote:


hi don

I followed your advice about using sqldf package but the problem of
labelling the fields persists;
for some reasons I can not properly handle the sql 'as' statement

a_b-sqldf(select a.*, b.* from a left join b on a.date=b.date)
a_b_c-sqldf(select a_b.*, c.* from a_b left join c on a_b.date=c.date)

bye

max





- Original Message -
From: MacQueen, Don macque...@llnl.gov
To: maxbre mbres...@arpa.veneto.it; r-help@r-project.org
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: [R] merge multiple data frames


Not tested, but this might be a case for the sqldf package.

-Don

--
Don MacQueen

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
7000 East Ave., L-627
Livermore, CA 94550
925-423-1062





On 1/26/12 9:29 AM, maxbre mbres...@arpa.veneto.it wrote:


This is my reproducible example (three data frames: a, b, c)

a-structure(list(date = structure(1:6, .Label = c(2012-01-03,
2012-01-04, 2012-01-05, 2012-01-06, 2012-01-07, 2012-01-08,
2012-01-09, 2012-01-10, 2012-01-11, 2012-01-12, 2012-01-13,
2012-01-14, 2012-01-15, 2012-01-16, 2012-01-17, 2012-01-18,
2012-01-19, 2012-01-20, 2012-01-21, 2012-01-22, 2012-01-23
), class = factor), so2 = c(0.799401398190476, 0, 0,
0.0100453950434783,
0.200154920565217, 0.473866969181818), nox = c(111.716109973913,
178.077239330435, 191.257829021739, 50.6799951473913, 115.284643540435,
110.425185027727), no = c(48.8543691516522, 88.7197448817391,
93.9931932472609, 13.9759949817391, 43.1395266865217, 41.7280296016364
), no2 = c(36.8673432865217, 42.37150668, 47.53311701, 29.3026882474783,
49.2986070321739, 46.5978461731818), co = c(0.618856168125,
0.99659347508,
0.66698741608, 0.38343731117, 0.281604928875, 0.155383408913043
), o3 = c(12.1393100029167, 12.3522739816522, 10.9908791203043,
26.9122200013043, 13.8421695947826, 12.3788847045455), ipa =
c(167.541954974667,
252.7196257875, 231.802370709167, 83.4850259595833, 174.394613581667,
173.868599272609), ws = c(1.47191016429167, 0.765781205208333,
0.937053086791667, 1.581022406625, 0.909756802125, 0.959252831695652
), wd = c(45.2650019737732, 28.2493544114369, 171.049080544214,
319.753674830936, 33.8713897347193, 228.368119533759), temp =
c(7.9197282588,
3.79434291520833, 2.1287644735, 6.733854600625, 3.136579722,
3.09864120704348), umr = c(86.11566638875, 94.5034087491667,
94.14451249375, 53.1016709004167, 65.63420423, 74.955669236087
)), .Names = c(date, so2, nox, no, no2, co, o3,
ipa, ws, wd, temp, umr), row.names = c(NA, 6L), class =
data.frame)


b-structure(list(date = structure(1:6, .Label = c(2012-01-03,
2012-01-04, 2012-01-05, 2012-01-06, 2012-01-07, 2012-01-08,
2012-01-09, 2012-01-10, 2012-01-11, 2012-01-12, 2012-01-13,
2012-01-14, 2012-01-15, 2012-01-16, 2012-01-17, 2012-01

Re: [R] merge multiple data frames

2012-01-30 Thread Massimo Bressan

hi don

I followed your advice about using sqldf package but the problem of 
labelling the fields persists;

for some reasons I can not properly handle the sql 'as' statement

a_b-sqldf(select a.*, b.* from a left join b on a.date=b.date)
a_b_c-sqldf(select a_b.*, c.* from a_b left join c on a_b.date=c.date)

bye

max





- Original Message - 
From: MacQueen, Don macque...@llnl.gov

To: maxbre mbres...@arpa.veneto.it; r-help@r-project.org
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: [R] merge multiple data frames


Not tested, but this might be a case for the sqldf package.

-Don

--
Don MacQueen

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
7000 East Ave., L-627
Livermore, CA 94550
925-423-1062





On 1/26/12 9:29 AM, maxbre mbres...@arpa.veneto.it wrote:


This is my reproducible example (three data frames: a, b, c)

a-structure(list(date = structure(1:6, .Label = c(2012-01-03,
2012-01-04, 2012-01-05, 2012-01-06, 2012-01-07, 2012-01-08,
2012-01-09, 2012-01-10, 2012-01-11, 2012-01-12, 2012-01-13,
2012-01-14, 2012-01-15, 2012-01-16, 2012-01-17, 2012-01-18,
2012-01-19, 2012-01-20, 2012-01-21, 2012-01-22, 2012-01-23
), class = factor), so2 = c(0.799401398190476, 0, 0,
0.0100453950434783,
0.200154920565217, 0.473866969181818), nox = c(111.716109973913,
178.077239330435, 191.257829021739, 50.6799951473913, 115.284643540435,
110.425185027727), no = c(48.8543691516522, 88.7197448817391,
93.9931932472609, 13.9759949817391, 43.1395266865217, 41.7280296016364
), no2 = c(36.8673432865217, 42.37150668, 47.53311701, 29.3026882474783,
49.2986070321739, 46.5978461731818), co = c(0.618856168125,
0.99659347508,
0.66698741608, 0.38343731117, 0.281604928875, 0.155383408913043
), o3 = c(12.1393100029167, 12.3522739816522, 10.9908791203043,
26.9122200013043, 13.8421695947826, 12.3788847045455), ipa =
c(167.541954974667,
252.7196257875, 231.802370709167, 83.4850259595833, 174.394613581667,
173.868599272609), ws = c(1.47191016429167, 0.765781205208333,
0.937053086791667, 1.581022406625, 0.909756802125, 0.959252831695652
), wd = c(45.2650019737732, 28.2493544114369, 171.049080544214,
319.753674830936, 33.8713897347193, 228.368119533759), temp =
c(7.9197282588,
3.79434291520833, 2.1287644735, 6.733854600625, 3.136579722,
3.09864120704348), umr = c(86.11566638875, 94.5034087491667,
94.14451249375, 53.1016709004167, 65.63420423, 74.955669236087
)), .Names = c(date, so2, nox, no, no2, co, o3,
ipa, ws, wd, temp, umr), row.names = c(NA, 6L), class =
data.frame)


b-structure(list(date = structure(1:6, .Label = c(2012-01-03,
2012-01-04, 2012-01-05, 2012-01-06, 2012-01-07, 2012-01-08,
2012-01-09, 2012-01-10, 2012-01-11, 2012-01-12, 2012-01-13,
2012-01-14, 2012-01-15, 2012-01-16, 2012-01-17, 2012-01-18,
2012-01-19, 2012-01-20, 2012-01-21, 2012-01-22, 2012-01-23
), class = factor), so2 = c(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), nox = c(13.74758511,
105.8060582, 61.22720599, 11.45280354, 56.86804174, 39.17917222
), no = c(0.882593766, 48.97037506, 9.732937217, 1.794549972,
16.32300019, 8.883637786), no2 = c(11.80447753, 25.35235381,
28.72990261, 8.590004034, 31.9003796, 25.50512403), co = c(0.113954917,
0.305985964, 0.064001839, 0, 1.86e-05, 0), o3 = c(5.570499897,
9.802379608, 5.729360104, 11.91304016, 12.13407993, 10.00961971
), ipa = c(6.065110207, 116.9079971, 93.21240234, 10.5777998,
66.40740204, 34.47359848), ws = c(0.122115001, 0.367668003, 0.494913995,
0.627124012, 0.473895013, 0.593913019), wd = c(238.485119317031,
221.645073036776, 220.372076815032, 237.868340917096, 209.532933617465,
215.752030286564), temp = c(4.044159889, 1.176810026, 0.142934993,
0.184606999, -0.935989976, -2.015399933), umr = c(72.29229736,
88.69879913, 87.49530029, 24.00079918, 44.8852005, 49.47729874
)), .Names = c(date, so2, nox, no, no2, co, o3,
ipa, ws, wd, temp, umr), row.names = c(NA, 6L), class =
data.frame)


c-structure(list(date = structure(1:6, .Label = c(2012-01-03,
2012-01-04, 2012-01-05, 2012-01-06, 2012-01-07, 2012-01-08,
2012-01-09, 2012-01-10, 2012-01-11, 2012-01-12, 2012-01-13,
2012-01-14, 2012-01-15, 2012-01-16, 2012-01-17, 2012-01-18,
2012-01-19, 2012-01-20, 2012-01-21, 2012-01-22, 2012-01-23
), class = factor), so2 = c(2.617839247, 0, 0, 0.231044086,
0.944608887, 2.12400444), nox = c(308.9046313, 275.6778849, 390.0824142,
178.7429364, 238.655832, 251.892601), no = c(156.0262489, 151.4412498,
221.0725021, 65.96049786, 106.541748, 119.3471241), no2 = c(74.80145447,
59.29991481, 66.5897975, 77.84267978, 75.68422569, 85.43044816
), co = c(1.628431197, 1.716231492, 1.264678366, 1.693460745,
0.780637084, 0.892724398), o3 = c(26.1473999, 15.91584015, 22.46199989,
37.39400101, 15.63426018, 17.51494026), ipa = c(538.414978, 406.4620056,
432.6459961, 275.2820129, 435.7909851, 436.8039856), ws = c(4.995530128,
1.355309963, 1.708899975, 3.131690025, 1.546270013, 1.571320057
), wd = c(58.15639877, 64.5657153143848, 39.9754269501381,
24.0739884380921,
55.9453098437477, 56.7648829092446), temp = c(10.24740028, 7.052690029,
4.33258009

Re: [R] merge multiple data frames

2012-01-30 Thread Massimo Bressan

thanks michael

it's working like a charm: that's exaclty what I was looking for

bye

max

- Original Message - 
From: R. Michael Weylandt michael.weyla...@gmail.com

To: Massimo Bressan mbres...@arpa.veneto.it
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: [R] merge multiple data frames


Oh, sorry -- I assumed that was intentional since my code passed the
identical() test with what you said you wanted.

Perhaps this gets what you meant you wanted instead (though the
treatment of the names is far from elegant)

mergeAll - function(..., by = date, all = TRUE) {
 dotArgs - list(...)
 dotNames - lapply(dotArgs, names)
 repNames - Reduce(intersect, dotNames)
 repNames - repNames[repNames != by]
 for(i in seq_along(dotArgs)){
   wn - which( (names(dotArgs[[i]]) %in% repNames) 
(names(dotArgs[[i]]) != by))
   names(dotArgs[[i]])[wn] - paste(names(dotArgs[[i]])[wn],
names(dotArgs)[[i]], sep = .)
 }
 Reduce(function(x, y) merge(x, y, by = by, all = all), dotArgs)
}

print(str(mergeAll(a=a,b=b,c=c)))

Is that what you were going for?

Michael

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 3:19 AM, Massimo Bressan
mbres...@arpa.veneto.it wrote:

I tested your code: it's OK but there is still the problem of the suffixes
for the last dataframe
thank you for the support


- Original Message - From: R. Michael Weylandt
michael.weyla...@gmail.com
To: maxbre mbres...@arpa.veneto.it
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: [R] merge multiple data frames


I might do something like this:

mergeAll - function(..., by = date, all = TRUE) {
dotArgs - list(...)
Reduce(function(x, y)
merge(x, y, by = by, all = all, suffixes=paste(., names(dotArgs),
sep = )),
dotArgs)}

mergeAll(a = a, b = b, c = c)

str(.Last.value)

You also might be able to set it up to capture names without you
having to put a = a etc. using substitute.

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:29 PM, maxbre mbres...@arpa.veneto.it wrote:


This is my reproducible example (three data frames: a, b, c)

a-structure(list(date = structure(1:6, .Label = c(2012-01-03,
2012-01-04, 2012-01-05, 2012-01-06, 2012-01-07, 2012-01-08,
2012-01-09, 2012-01-10, 2012-01-11, 2012-01-12, 2012-01-13,
2012-01-14, 2012-01-15, 2012-01-16, 2012-01-17, 2012-01-18,
2012-01-19, 2012-01-20, 2012-01-21, 2012-01-22, 2012-01-23
), class = factor), so2 = c(0.799401398190476, 0, 0, 
0.0100453950434783,

0.200154920565217, 0.473866969181818), nox = c(111.716109973913,
178.077239330435, 191.257829021739, 50.6799951473913, 115.284643540435,
110.425185027727), no = c(48.8543691516522, 88.7197448817391,
93.9931932472609, 13.9759949817391, 43.1395266865217, 41.7280296016364
), no2 = c(36.8673432865217, 42.37150668, 47.53311701, 29.3026882474783,
49.2986070321739, 46.5978461731818), co = c(0.618856168125,
0.99659347508,
0.66698741608, 0.38343731117, 0.281604928875, 0.155383408913043
), o3 = c(12.1393100029167, 12.3522739816522, 10.9908791203043,
26.9122200013043, 13.8421695947826, 12.3788847045455), ipa =
c(167.541954974667,
252.7196257875, 231.802370709167, 83.4850259595833, 174.394613581667,
173.868599272609), ws = c(1.47191016429167, 0.765781205208333,
0.937053086791667, 1.581022406625, 0.909756802125, 0.959252831695652
), wd = c(45.2650019737732, 28.2493544114369, 171.049080544214,
319.753674830936, 33.8713897347193, 228.368119533759), temp =
c(7.9197282588,
3.79434291520833, 2.1287644735, 6.733854600625, 3.136579722,
3.09864120704348), umr = c(86.11566638875, 94.5034087491667,
94.14451249375, 53.1016709004167, 65.63420423, 74.955669236087
)), .Names = c(date, so2, nox, no, no2, co, o3,
ipa, ws, wd, temp, umr), row.names = c(NA, 6L), class =
data.frame)


b-structure(list(date = structure(1:6, .Label = c(2012-01-03,
2012-01-04, 2012-01-05, 2012-01-06, 2012-01-07, 2012-01-08,
2012-01-09, 2012-01-10, 2012-01-11, 2012-01-12, 2012-01-13,
2012-01-14, 2012-01-15, 2012-01-16, 2012-01-17, 2012-01-18,
2012-01-19, 2012-01-20, 2012-01-21, 2012-01-22, 2012-01-23
), class = factor), so2 = c(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), nox = c(13.74758511,
105.8060582, 61.22720599, 11.45280354, 56.86804174, 39.17917222
), no = c(0.882593766, 48.97037506, 9.732937217, 1.794549972,
16.32300019, 8.883637786), no2 = c(11.80447753, 25.35235381,
28.72990261, 8.590004034, 31.9003796, 25.50512403), co = c(0.113954917,
0.305985964, 0.064001839, 0, 1.86e-05, 0), o3 = c(5.570499897,
9.802379608, 5.729360104, 11.91304016, 12.13407993, 10.00961971
), ipa = c(6.065110207, 116.9079971, 93.21240234, 10.5777998,
66.40740204, 34.47359848), ws = c(0.122115001, 0.367668003, 0.494913995,
0.627124012, 0.473895013, 0.593913019), wd = c(238.485119317031,
221.645073036776, 220.372076815032, 237.868340917096, 209.532933617465,
215.752030286564), temp = c(4.044159889, 1.176810026, 0.142934993,
0.184606999, -0.935989976, -2.015399933), umr = c(72.29229736,
88.69879913, 87.49530029, 24.00079918, 44.8852005, 49.47729874
)), .Names = c(date, so2, nox, no, no2

Re: [R] merge multiple data frames

2012-01-30 Thread MacQueen, Don
Does this example help? It doesn't handle the problem of common field
names, but see below for another example.

df1 - data.frame(jn=1:4, a1=letters[1:4], a2=LETTERS[1:4])
df2 - data.frame(jn=2:6, b1=month.abb[2:6])
df3 - data.frame(jn=3:7, x=rnorm(5), y=13:17)

dfn - sqldf('select * from df1 left join df2 using (jn) left join df3
using (jn)')

In this example, you automatically get all fields from all three data
frames, without having to name them in the SQL statement -- but you should
not have common names.


To deal with common names, I myself would probably rename the variables in
the data frames before trying to merge.

A general method would be something like:
  nms1 - names(df1)
  nms1[nms1 != 'date'] - paste(nms1[nms1 != 'date'],'.1',sep='')
  names(df1) - nms1
Of course it has to be done for every data frame, but this can be put in a
loop, if necessary.


However, here is an example where I have changed df1 and df2; they both
have a field named 'aa', in addition to the matching field.

df1 - data.frame(jn=1:4, aa=letters[1:4], a2=LETTERS[1:4])
df2 - data.frame(jn=2:6, aa=month.abb[2:6])
df3 - data.frame(jn=3:7, x=rnorm(5), y=13:17)

dfn - sqldf('select jn, df1.aa aa1, df2.aa aa2,
  a2, x, y
   from df1 left join df2 using (jn) left join df3 using (jn)')

By the way, you can still select *, even with common names:


  dfx - sqldf('select *   from df1 left join df2 using (jn) left join df3
using (jn)')but you might not like the result. Try it and see!




It's my understanding that in the current SQL definition 'as' is no longer
required when changing field names (though it is also still allowed in the
databases I work with, Oracle and MySQL). Perhaps sqldf does not allow it.
I don't know.

Hope this helps.

-Don



-- 
Don MacQueen

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
7000 East Ave., L-627
Livermore, CA 94550
925-423-1062





On 1/30/12 4:40 AM, Massimo Bressan mbres...@arpa.veneto.it wrote:

hi don

I followed your advice about using sqldf package but the problem of
labelling the fields persists;
for some reasons I can not properly handle the sql 'as' statement

a_b-sqldf(select a.*, b.* from a left join b on a.date=b.date)
a_b_c-sqldf(select a_b.*, c.* from a_b left join c on a_b.date=c.date)

bye

max





- Original Message -
From: MacQueen, Don macque...@llnl.gov
To: maxbre mbres...@arpa.veneto.it; r-help@r-project.org
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: [R] merge multiple data frames


Not tested, but this might be a case for the sqldf package.

-Don

-- 
Don MacQueen

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
7000 East Ave., L-627
Livermore, CA 94550
925-423-1062





On 1/26/12 9:29 AM, maxbre mbres...@arpa.veneto.it wrote:

This is my reproducible example (three data frames: a, b, c)

a-structure(list(date = structure(1:6, .Label = c(2012-01-03,
2012-01-04, 2012-01-05, 2012-01-06, 2012-01-07, 2012-01-08,
2012-01-09, 2012-01-10, 2012-01-11, 2012-01-12, 2012-01-13,
2012-01-14, 2012-01-15, 2012-01-16, 2012-01-17, 2012-01-18,
2012-01-19, 2012-01-20, 2012-01-21, 2012-01-22, 2012-01-23
), class = factor), so2 = c(0.799401398190476, 0, 0,
0.0100453950434783,
0.200154920565217, 0.473866969181818), nox = c(111.716109973913,
178.077239330435, 191.257829021739, 50.6799951473913, 115.284643540435,
110.425185027727), no = c(48.8543691516522, 88.7197448817391,
93.9931932472609, 13.9759949817391, 43.1395266865217, 41.7280296016364
), no2 = c(36.8673432865217, 42.37150668, 47.53311701, 29.3026882474783,
49.2986070321739, 46.5978461731818), co = c(0.618856168125,
0.99659347508,
0.66698741608, 0.38343731117, 0.281604928875, 0.155383408913043
), o3 = c(12.1393100029167, 12.3522739816522, 10.9908791203043,
26.9122200013043, 13.8421695947826, 12.3788847045455), ipa =
c(167.541954974667,
252.7196257875, 231.802370709167, 83.4850259595833, 174.394613581667,
173.868599272609), ws = c(1.47191016429167, 0.765781205208333,
0.937053086791667, 1.581022406625, 0.909756802125, 0.959252831695652
), wd = c(45.2650019737732, 28.2493544114369, 171.049080544214,
319.753674830936, 33.8713897347193, 228.368119533759), temp =
c(7.9197282588,
3.79434291520833, 2.1287644735, 6.733854600625, 3.136579722,
3.09864120704348), umr = c(86.11566638875, 94.5034087491667,
94.14451249375, 53.1016709004167, 65.63420423, 74.955669236087
)), .Names = c(date, so2, nox, no, no2, co, o3,
ipa, ws, wd, temp, umr), row.names = c(NA, 6L), class =
data.frame)


b-structure(list(date = structure(1:6, .Label = c(2012-01-03,
2012-01-04, 2012-01-05, 2012-01-06, 2012-01-07, 2012-01-08,
2012-01-09, 2012-01-10, 2012-01-11, 2012-01-12, 2012-01-13,
2012-01-14, 2012-01-15, 2012-01-16, 2012-01-17, 2012-01-18,
2012-01-19, 2012-01-20, 2012-01-21, 2012-01-22, 2012-01-23
), class = factor), so2 = c(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), nox = c(13.74758511,
105.8060582, 61.22720599, 11.45280354, 56.86804174, 39.17917222
), no = c(0.882593766, 48.97037506, 9.732937217, 1.794549972,
16.32300019, 8.883637786), no2 = c

Re: [R] merge multiple data frames

2012-01-27 Thread Massimo Bressan
I tested your code: it's OK but there is still the problem of the suffixes 
for the last dataframe

thank you for the support


- Original Message - 
From: R. Michael Weylandt michael.weyla...@gmail.com

To: maxbre mbres...@arpa.veneto.it
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: [R] merge multiple data frames


I might do something like this:

mergeAll - function(..., by = date, all = TRUE) {
 dotArgs - list(...)
 Reduce(function(x, y)
 merge(x, y, by = by, all = all, suffixes=paste(., names(dotArgs),
sep = )),
 dotArgs)}

mergeAll(a = a, b = b, c = c)

str(.Last.value)

You also might be able to set it up to capture names without you
having to put a = a etc. using substitute.

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:29 PM, maxbre mbres...@arpa.veneto.it wrote:

This is my reproducible example (three data frames: a, b, c)

a-structure(list(date = structure(1:6, .Label = c(2012-01-03,
2012-01-04, 2012-01-05, 2012-01-06, 2012-01-07, 2012-01-08,
2012-01-09, 2012-01-10, 2012-01-11, 2012-01-12, 2012-01-13,
2012-01-14, 2012-01-15, 2012-01-16, 2012-01-17, 2012-01-18,
2012-01-19, 2012-01-20, 2012-01-21, 2012-01-22, 2012-01-23
), class = factor), so2 = c(0.799401398190476, 0, 0, 0.0100453950434783,
0.200154920565217, 0.473866969181818), nox = c(111.716109973913,
178.077239330435, 191.257829021739, 50.6799951473913, 115.284643540435,
110.425185027727), no = c(48.8543691516522, 88.7197448817391,
93.9931932472609, 13.9759949817391, 43.1395266865217, 41.7280296016364
), no2 = c(36.8673432865217, 42.37150668, 47.53311701, 29.3026882474783,
49.2986070321739, 46.5978461731818), co = c(0.618856168125,
0.99659347508,
0.66698741608, 0.38343731117, 0.281604928875, 0.155383408913043
), o3 = c(12.1393100029167, 12.3522739816522, 10.9908791203043,
26.9122200013043, 13.8421695947826, 12.3788847045455), ipa =
c(167.541954974667,
252.7196257875, 231.802370709167, 83.4850259595833, 174.394613581667,
173.868599272609), ws = c(1.47191016429167, 0.765781205208333,
0.937053086791667, 1.581022406625, 0.909756802125, 0.959252831695652
), wd = c(45.2650019737732, 28.2493544114369, 171.049080544214,
319.753674830936, 33.8713897347193, 228.368119533759), temp =
c(7.9197282588,
3.79434291520833, 2.1287644735, 6.733854600625, 3.136579722,
3.09864120704348), umr = c(86.11566638875, 94.5034087491667,
94.14451249375, 53.1016709004167, 65.63420423, 74.955669236087
)), .Names = c(date, so2, nox, no, no2, co, o3,
ipa, ws, wd, temp, umr), row.names = c(NA, 6L), class =
data.frame)


b-structure(list(date = structure(1:6, .Label = c(2012-01-03,
2012-01-04, 2012-01-05, 2012-01-06, 2012-01-07, 2012-01-08,
2012-01-09, 2012-01-10, 2012-01-11, 2012-01-12, 2012-01-13,
2012-01-14, 2012-01-15, 2012-01-16, 2012-01-17, 2012-01-18,
2012-01-19, 2012-01-20, 2012-01-21, 2012-01-22, 2012-01-23
), class = factor), so2 = c(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), nox = c(13.74758511,
105.8060582, 61.22720599, 11.45280354, 56.86804174, 39.17917222
), no = c(0.882593766, 48.97037506, 9.732937217, 1.794549972,
16.32300019, 8.883637786), no2 = c(11.80447753, 25.35235381,
28.72990261, 8.590004034, 31.9003796, 25.50512403), co = c(0.113954917,
0.305985964, 0.064001839, 0, 1.86e-05, 0), o3 = c(5.570499897,
9.802379608, 5.729360104, 11.91304016, 12.13407993, 10.00961971
), ipa = c(6.065110207, 116.9079971, 93.21240234, 10.5777998,
66.40740204, 34.47359848), ws = c(0.122115001, 0.367668003, 0.494913995,
0.627124012, 0.473895013, 0.593913019), wd = c(238.485119317031,
221.645073036776, 220.372076815032, 237.868340917096, 209.532933617465,
215.752030286564), temp = c(4.044159889, 1.176810026, 0.142934993,
0.184606999, -0.935989976, -2.015399933), umr = c(72.29229736,
88.69879913, 87.49530029, 24.00079918, 44.8852005, 49.47729874
)), .Names = c(date, so2, nox, no, no2, co, o3,
ipa, ws, wd, temp, umr), row.names = c(NA, 6L), class =
data.frame)


c-structure(list(date = structure(1:6, .Label = c(2012-01-03,
2012-01-04, 2012-01-05, 2012-01-06, 2012-01-07, 2012-01-08,
2012-01-09, 2012-01-10, 2012-01-11, 2012-01-12, 2012-01-13,
2012-01-14, 2012-01-15, 2012-01-16, 2012-01-17, 2012-01-18,
2012-01-19, 2012-01-20, 2012-01-21, 2012-01-22, 2012-01-23
), class = factor), so2 = c(2.617839247, 0, 0, 0.231044086,
0.944608887, 2.12400444), nox = c(308.9046313, 275.6778849, 390.0824142,
178.7429364, 238.655832, 251.892601), no = c(156.0262489, 151.4412498,
221.0725021, 65.96049786, 106.541748, 119.3471241), no2 = c(74.80145447,
59.29991481, 66.5897975, 77.84267978, 75.68422569, 85.43044816
), co = c(1.628431197, 1.716231492, 1.264678366, 1.693460745,
0.780637084, 0.892724398), o3 = c(26.1473999, 15.91584015, 22.46199989,
37.39400101, 15.63426018, 17.51494026), ipa = c(538.414978, 406.4620056,
432.6459961, 275.2820129, 435.7909851, 436.8039856), ws = c(4.995530128,
1.355309963, 1.708899975, 3.131690025, 1.546270013, 1.571320057
), wd = c(58.15639877, 64.5657153143848, 39.9754269501381, 
24.0739884380921,

55.9453098437477, 56.7648829092446), temp = c(10.24740028

Re: [R] merge multiple data frames

2012-01-27 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
Oh, sorry -- I assumed that was intentional since my code passed the
identical() test with what you said you wanted.

Perhaps this gets what you meant you wanted instead (though the
treatment of the names is far from elegant)

mergeAll - function(..., by = date, all = TRUE) {
  dotArgs - list(...)
  dotNames - lapply(dotArgs, names)
  repNames - Reduce(intersect, dotNames)
  repNames - repNames[repNames != by]
  for(i in seq_along(dotArgs)){
wn - which( (names(dotArgs[[i]]) %in% repNames) 
(names(dotArgs[[i]]) != by))
names(dotArgs[[i]])[wn] - paste(names(dotArgs[[i]])[wn],
 names(dotArgs)[[i]], sep = .)
  }
  Reduce(function(x, y) merge(x, y, by = by, all = all), dotArgs)
}

print(str(mergeAll(a=a,b=b,c=c)))

Is that what you were going for?

Michael

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 3:19 AM, Massimo Bressan
mbres...@arpa.veneto.it wrote:
 I tested your code: it's OK but there is still the problem of the suffixes
 for the last dataframe
 thank you for the support


 - Original Message - From: R. Michael Weylandt
 michael.weyla...@gmail.com
 To: maxbre mbres...@arpa.veneto.it
 Cc: r-help@r-project.org
 Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 8:19 PM
 Subject: Re: [R] merge multiple data frames


 I might do something like this:

 mergeAll - function(..., by = date, all = TRUE) {
  dotArgs - list(...)
  Reduce(function(x, y)
  merge(x, y, by = by, all = all, suffixes=paste(., names(dotArgs),
 sep = )),
  dotArgs)}

 mergeAll(a = a, b = b, c = c)

 str(.Last.value)

 You also might be able to set it up to capture names without you
 having to put a = a etc. using substitute.

 On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:29 PM, maxbre mbres...@arpa.veneto.it wrote:

 This is my reproducible example (three data frames: a, b, c)

 a-structure(list(date = structure(1:6, .Label = c(2012-01-03,
 2012-01-04, 2012-01-05, 2012-01-06, 2012-01-07, 2012-01-08,
 2012-01-09, 2012-01-10, 2012-01-11, 2012-01-12, 2012-01-13,
 2012-01-14, 2012-01-15, 2012-01-16, 2012-01-17, 2012-01-18,
 2012-01-19, 2012-01-20, 2012-01-21, 2012-01-22, 2012-01-23
 ), class = factor), so2 = c(0.799401398190476, 0, 0, 0.0100453950434783,
 0.200154920565217, 0.473866969181818), nox = c(111.716109973913,
 178.077239330435, 191.257829021739, 50.6799951473913, 115.284643540435,
 110.425185027727), no = c(48.8543691516522, 88.7197448817391,
 93.9931932472609, 13.9759949817391, 43.1395266865217, 41.7280296016364
 ), no2 = c(36.8673432865217, 42.37150668, 47.53311701, 29.3026882474783,
 49.2986070321739, 46.5978461731818), co = c(0.618856168125,
 0.99659347508,
 0.66698741608, 0.38343731117, 0.281604928875, 0.155383408913043
 ), o3 = c(12.1393100029167, 12.3522739816522, 10.9908791203043,
 26.9122200013043, 13.8421695947826, 12.3788847045455), ipa =
 c(167.541954974667,
 252.7196257875, 231.802370709167, 83.4850259595833, 174.394613581667,
 173.868599272609), ws = c(1.47191016429167, 0.765781205208333,
 0.937053086791667, 1.581022406625, 0.909756802125, 0.959252831695652
 ), wd = c(45.2650019737732, 28.2493544114369, 171.049080544214,
 319.753674830936, 33.8713897347193, 228.368119533759), temp =
 c(7.9197282588,
 3.79434291520833, 2.1287644735, 6.733854600625, 3.136579722,
 3.09864120704348), umr = c(86.11566638875, 94.5034087491667,
 94.14451249375, 53.1016709004167, 65.63420423, 74.955669236087
 )), .Names = c(date, so2, nox, no, no2, co, o3,
 ipa, ws, wd, temp, umr), row.names = c(NA, 6L), class =
 data.frame)


 b-structure(list(date = structure(1:6, .Label = c(2012-01-03,
 2012-01-04, 2012-01-05, 2012-01-06, 2012-01-07, 2012-01-08,
 2012-01-09, 2012-01-10, 2012-01-11, 2012-01-12, 2012-01-13,
 2012-01-14, 2012-01-15, 2012-01-16, 2012-01-17, 2012-01-18,
 2012-01-19, 2012-01-20, 2012-01-21, 2012-01-22, 2012-01-23
 ), class = factor), so2 = c(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), nox = c(13.74758511,
 105.8060582, 61.22720599, 11.45280354, 56.86804174, 39.17917222
 ), no = c(0.882593766, 48.97037506, 9.732937217, 1.794549972,
 16.32300019, 8.883637786), no2 = c(11.80447753, 25.35235381,
 28.72990261, 8.590004034, 31.9003796, 25.50512403), co = c(0.113954917,
 0.305985964, 0.064001839, 0, 1.86e-05, 0), o3 = c(5.570499897,
 9.802379608, 5.729360104, 11.91304016, 12.13407993, 10.00961971
 ), ipa = c(6.065110207, 116.9079971, 93.21240234, 10.5777998,
 66.40740204, 34.47359848), ws = c(0.122115001, 0.367668003, 0.494913995,
 0.627124012, 0.473895013, 0.593913019), wd = c(238.485119317031,
 221.645073036776, 220.372076815032, 237.868340917096, 209.532933617465,
 215.752030286564), temp = c(4.044159889, 1.176810026, 0.142934993,
 0.184606999, -0.935989976, -2.015399933), umr = c(72.29229736,
 88.69879913, 87.49530029, 24.00079918, 44.8852005, 49.47729874
 )), .Names = c(date, so2, nox, no, no2, co, o3,
 ipa, ws, wd, temp, umr), row.names = c(NA, 6L), class =
 data.frame)


 c-structure(list(date = structure(1:6, .Label = c(2012-01-03,
 2012-01-04, 2012-01-05, 2012-01-06, 2012-01-07, 2012-01-08,
 2012-01-09, 2012-01-10, 2012-01-11, 2012-01

Re: [R] merge multiple data frames

2012-01-27 Thread MacQueen, Don
Not tested, but this might be a case for the sqldf package.

-Don

-- 
Don MacQueen

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
7000 East Ave., L-627
Livermore, CA 94550
925-423-1062





On 1/26/12 9:29 AM, maxbre mbres...@arpa.veneto.it wrote:

This is my reproducible example (three data frames: a, b, c)

a-structure(list(date = structure(1:6, .Label = c(2012-01-03,
2012-01-04, 2012-01-05, 2012-01-06, 2012-01-07, 2012-01-08,
2012-01-09, 2012-01-10, 2012-01-11, 2012-01-12, 2012-01-13,
2012-01-14, 2012-01-15, 2012-01-16, 2012-01-17, 2012-01-18,
2012-01-19, 2012-01-20, 2012-01-21, 2012-01-22, 2012-01-23
), class = factor), so2 = c(0.799401398190476, 0, 0,
0.0100453950434783,
0.200154920565217, 0.473866969181818), nox = c(111.716109973913,
178.077239330435, 191.257829021739, 50.6799951473913, 115.284643540435,
110.425185027727), no = c(48.8543691516522, 88.7197448817391,
93.9931932472609, 13.9759949817391, 43.1395266865217, 41.7280296016364
), no2 = c(36.8673432865217, 42.37150668, 47.53311701, 29.3026882474783,
49.2986070321739, 46.5978461731818), co = c(0.618856168125,
0.99659347508,
0.66698741608, 0.38343731117, 0.281604928875, 0.155383408913043
), o3 = c(12.1393100029167, 12.3522739816522, 10.9908791203043,
26.9122200013043, 13.8421695947826, 12.3788847045455), ipa =
c(167.541954974667,
252.7196257875, 231.802370709167, 83.4850259595833, 174.394613581667,
173.868599272609), ws = c(1.47191016429167, 0.765781205208333,
0.937053086791667, 1.581022406625, 0.909756802125, 0.959252831695652
), wd = c(45.2650019737732, 28.2493544114369, 171.049080544214,
319.753674830936, 33.8713897347193, 228.368119533759), temp =
c(7.9197282588,
3.79434291520833, 2.1287644735, 6.733854600625, 3.136579722,
3.09864120704348), umr = c(86.11566638875, 94.5034087491667,
94.14451249375, 53.1016709004167, 65.63420423, 74.955669236087
)), .Names = c(date, so2, nox, no, no2, co, o3,
ipa, ws, wd, temp, umr), row.names = c(NA, 6L), class =
data.frame)


b-structure(list(date = structure(1:6, .Label = c(2012-01-03,
2012-01-04, 2012-01-05, 2012-01-06, 2012-01-07, 2012-01-08,
2012-01-09, 2012-01-10, 2012-01-11, 2012-01-12, 2012-01-13,
2012-01-14, 2012-01-15, 2012-01-16, 2012-01-17, 2012-01-18,
2012-01-19, 2012-01-20, 2012-01-21, 2012-01-22, 2012-01-23
), class = factor), so2 = c(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), nox = c(13.74758511,
105.8060582, 61.22720599, 11.45280354, 56.86804174, 39.17917222
), no = c(0.882593766, 48.97037506, 9.732937217, 1.794549972,
16.32300019, 8.883637786), no2 = c(11.80447753, 25.35235381,
28.72990261, 8.590004034, 31.9003796, 25.50512403), co = c(0.113954917,
0.305985964, 0.064001839, 0, 1.86e-05, 0), o3 = c(5.570499897,
9.802379608, 5.729360104, 11.91304016, 12.13407993, 10.00961971
), ipa = c(6.065110207, 116.9079971, 93.21240234, 10.5777998,
66.40740204, 34.47359848), ws = c(0.122115001, 0.367668003, 0.494913995,
0.627124012, 0.473895013, 0.593913019), wd = c(238.485119317031,
221.645073036776, 220.372076815032, 237.868340917096, 209.532933617465,
215.752030286564), temp = c(4.044159889, 1.176810026, 0.142934993,
0.184606999, -0.935989976, -2.015399933), umr = c(72.29229736,
88.69879913, 87.49530029, 24.00079918, 44.8852005, 49.47729874
)), .Names = c(date, so2, nox, no, no2, co, o3,
ipa, ws, wd, temp, umr), row.names = c(NA, 6L), class =
data.frame)


c-structure(list(date = structure(1:6, .Label = c(2012-01-03,
2012-01-04, 2012-01-05, 2012-01-06, 2012-01-07, 2012-01-08,
2012-01-09, 2012-01-10, 2012-01-11, 2012-01-12, 2012-01-13,
2012-01-14, 2012-01-15, 2012-01-16, 2012-01-17, 2012-01-18,
2012-01-19, 2012-01-20, 2012-01-21, 2012-01-22, 2012-01-23
), class = factor), so2 = c(2.617839247, 0, 0, 0.231044086,
0.944608887, 2.12400444), nox = c(308.9046313, 275.6778849, 390.0824142,
178.7429364, 238.655832, 251.892601), no = c(156.0262489, 151.4412498,
221.0725021, 65.96049786, 106.541748, 119.3471241), no2 = c(74.80145447,
59.29991481, 66.5897975, 77.84267978, 75.68422569, 85.43044816
), co = c(1.628431197, 1.716231492, 1.264678366, 1.693460745,
0.780637084, 0.892724398), o3 = c(26.1473999, 15.91584015, 22.46199989,
37.39400101, 15.63426018, 17.51494026), ipa = c(538.414978, 406.4620056,
432.6459961, 275.2820129, 435.7909851, 436.8039856), ws = c(4.995530128,
1.355309963, 1.708899975, 3.131690025, 1.546270013, 1.571320057
), wd = c(58.15639877, 64.5657153143848, 39.9754269501381,
24.0739884380921, 
55.9453098437477, 56.7648829092446), temp = c(10.24740028, 7.052690029,
4.33258009, 13.91609955, 8.762220383, 11.04300022), umr = c(97.60900116,
96.91899872, 96.20649719, 94.74620056, 82.04550171, 89.41320038
)), .Names = c(date, so2, nox, no, no2, co, o3,
ipa, ws, wd, temp, umr), row.names = c(NA, 6L), class =
data.frame)


Given the three data frames ³a², ³b² and ³c², I need to merge them all by
the common field ³date².
The following attempt is working fine butŠ

# code start
all-merge(a,b,by=date,suffixes=c(.a,.b),all=T)
all-merge(all,c,by=date,all=T)
# code end

ŠI would like to possibly do it in just ³one shot² (a 

Re: [R] merge multiple data frames

2012-01-26 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
I might do something like this:

mergeAll - function(..., by = date, all = TRUE) {
  dotArgs - list(...)
  Reduce(function(x, y)
  merge(x, y, by = by, all = all, suffixes=paste(., names(dotArgs),
sep = )),
  dotArgs)}

mergeAll(a = a, b = b, c = c)

str(.Last.value)

You also might be able to set it up to capture names without you
having to put a = a etc. using substitute.

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:29 PM, maxbre mbres...@arpa.veneto.it wrote:
 This is my reproducible example (three data frames: a, b, c)

 a-structure(list(date = structure(1:6, .Label = c(2012-01-03,
 2012-01-04, 2012-01-05, 2012-01-06, 2012-01-07, 2012-01-08,
 2012-01-09, 2012-01-10, 2012-01-11, 2012-01-12, 2012-01-13,
 2012-01-14, 2012-01-15, 2012-01-16, 2012-01-17, 2012-01-18,
 2012-01-19, 2012-01-20, 2012-01-21, 2012-01-22, 2012-01-23
 ), class = factor), so2 = c(0.799401398190476, 0, 0, 0.0100453950434783,
 0.200154920565217, 0.473866969181818), nox = c(111.716109973913,
 178.077239330435, 191.257829021739, 50.6799951473913, 115.284643540435,
 110.425185027727), no = c(48.8543691516522, 88.7197448817391,
 93.9931932472609, 13.9759949817391, 43.1395266865217, 41.7280296016364
 ), no2 = c(36.8673432865217, 42.37150668, 47.53311701, 29.3026882474783,
 49.2986070321739, 46.5978461731818), co = c(0.618856168125,
 0.99659347508,
 0.66698741608, 0.38343731117, 0.281604928875, 0.155383408913043
 ), o3 = c(12.1393100029167, 12.3522739816522, 10.9908791203043,
 26.9122200013043, 13.8421695947826, 12.3788847045455), ipa =
 c(167.541954974667,
 252.7196257875, 231.802370709167, 83.4850259595833, 174.394613581667,
 173.868599272609), ws = c(1.47191016429167, 0.765781205208333,
 0.937053086791667, 1.581022406625, 0.909756802125, 0.959252831695652
 ), wd = c(45.2650019737732, 28.2493544114369, 171.049080544214,
 319.753674830936, 33.8713897347193, 228.368119533759), temp =
 c(7.9197282588,
 3.79434291520833, 2.1287644735, 6.733854600625, 3.136579722,
 3.09864120704348), umr = c(86.11566638875, 94.5034087491667,
 94.14451249375, 53.1016709004167, 65.63420423, 74.955669236087
 )), .Names = c(date, so2, nox, no, no2, co, o3,
 ipa, ws, wd, temp, umr), row.names = c(NA, 6L), class =
 data.frame)


 b-structure(list(date = structure(1:6, .Label = c(2012-01-03,
 2012-01-04, 2012-01-05, 2012-01-06, 2012-01-07, 2012-01-08,
 2012-01-09, 2012-01-10, 2012-01-11, 2012-01-12, 2012-01-13,
 2012-01-14, 2012-01-15, 2012-01-16, 2012-01-17, 2012-01-18,
 2012-01-19, 2012-01-20, 2012-01-21, 2012-01-22, 2012-01-23
 ), class = factor), so2 = c(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), nox = c(13.74758511,
 105.8060582, 61.22720599, 11.45280354, 56.86804174, 39.17917222
 ), no = c(0.882593766, 48.97037506, 9.732937217, 1.794549972,
 16.32300019, 8.883637786), no2 = c(11.80447753, 25.35235381,
 28.72990261, 8.590004034, 31.9003796, 25.50512403), co = c(0.113954917,
 0.305985964, 0.064001839, 0, 1.86e-05, 0), o3 = c(5.570499897,
 9.802379608, 5.729360104, 11.91304016, 12.13407993, 10.00961971
 ), ipa = c(6.065110207, 116.9079971, 93.21240234, 10.5777998,
 66.40740204, 34.47359848), ws = c(0.122115001, 0.367668003, 0.494913995,
 0.627124012, 0.473895013, 0.593913019), wd = c(238.485119317031,
 221.645073036776, 220.372076815032, 237.868340917096, 209.532933617465,
 215.752030286564), temp = c(4.044159889, 1.176810026, 0.142934993,
 0.184606999, -0.935989976, -2.015399933), umr = c(72.29229736,
 88.69879913, 87.49530029, 24.00079918, 44.8852005, 49.47729874
 )), .Names = c(date, so2, nox, no, no2, co, o3,
 ipa, ws, wd, temp, umr), row.names = c(NA, 6L), class =
 data.frame)


 c-structure(list(date = structure(1:6, .Label = c(2012-01-03,
 2012-01-04, 2012-01-05, 2012-01-06, 2012-01-07, 2012-01-08,
 2012-01-09, 2012-01-10, 2012-01-11, 2012-01-12, 2012-01-13,
 2012-01-14, 2012-01-15, 2012-01-16, 2012-01-17, 2012-01-18,
 2012-01-19, 2012-01-20, 2012-01-21, 2012-01-22, 2012-01-23
 ), class = factor), so2 = c(2.617839247, 0, 0, 0.231044086,
 0.944608887, 2.12400444), nox = c(308.9046313, 275.6778849, 390.0824142,
 178.7429364, 238.655832, 251.892601), no = c(156.0262489, 151.4412498,
 221.0725021, 65.96049786, 106.541748, 119.3471241), no2 = c(74.80145447,
 59.29991481, 66.5897975, 77.84267978, 75.68422569, 85.43044816
 ), co = c(1.628431197, 1.716231492, 1.264678366, 1.693460745,
 0.780637084, 0.892724398), o3 = c(26.1473999, 15.91584015, 22.46199989,
 37.39400101, 15.63426018, 17.51494026), ipa = c(538.414978, 406.4620056,
 432.6459961, 275.2820129, 435.7909851, 436.8039856), ws = c(4.995530128,
 1.355309963, 1.708899975, 3.131690025, 1.546270013, 1.571320057
 ), wd = c(58.15639877, 64.5657153143848, 39.9754269501381, 24.0739884380921,
 55.9453098437477, 56.7648829092446), temp = c(10.24740028, 7.052690029,
 4.33258009, 13.91609955, 8.762220383, 11.04300022), umr = c(97.60900116,
 96.91899872, 96.20649719, 94.74620056, 82.04550171, 89.41320038
 )), .Names = c(date, so2, nox, no, no2, co, o3,
 ipa, ws, wd, temp, umr), row.names = c(NA, 6L), class =
 data.frame)


 Given the three data 

Re: [R] merge multiple data frames

2012-01-26 Thread maxbre
thank you for your reply
I'll study and test your code (which is a bit obscure to me up to now);
by the way do you think that merge_all is a wrong way to hit? 
thanks again
m

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