Re: [R] Merge data frames but prefer values in on

2009-09-14 Thread Nandi
No you cannot. You may want to write a merge function with the special capability but there is no better way than the one suggested by Henrique. On Sep 14, 12:18 pm, JiHO wrote: > On 2009-September-11  , at 13:55 ,  wrote: > > > Maybe: > > > do.call(rbind, lapply(with(xy <- rbind(x, y), split(xy,

Re: [R] Merge data frames but prefer values in on

2009-09-14 Thread JiHO
On 2009-September-11 , at 13:55 , wrote: Maybe: do.call(rbind, lapply(with(xy <- rbind(x, y), split(xy, list(a, b), drop = TRUE)), tail, 1)) On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:45 AM, jo wrote: Thanks for the post-processing ideas. But is there any way to do that in one step? Thanks but by "in o