Re: [R] tricky (for me) merging of data...more clarity

2011-03-04 Thread Grant Gillis
For our animals we are comfortable with saying that body condition represents a roughly 30 day period, plus and minus 15 days from measurement. However, we have monitored individuals for longer periods and during those periods we do not wish there to be any values for body condition. There are

Re: [R] tricky (for me) merging of data...more clarity

2011-03-02 Thread Tal Galili
Question, How do you know that the following two rows should have NAs ? 1 16/02/87 NA NA 1 17/02/87 NA NA Contact Details:--- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com

Re: [R] tricky (for me) merging of data...more clarity

2011-03-01 Thread Grant Gillis
Hi Again, Thanks very much for your response. It seems my example got rearranged (transposed?) after I posted it. Hopefully this example will be more clear. I have one file (ex. sheet 1) that will have a column for individuals (ind) and a column for the date (date). I would like to merge this

[R] tricky (for me) merging of data

2011-02-27 Thread Grant Gillis
Dear List, I am having trouble with a tricky merging task. I have one data sheet that has dates (continuous) that radio collared individuals were monitored via telemetry. I have a different sheet containing data from instances where individuals were recaptured and associated body condition

Re: [R] tricky (for me) merging of data

2011-02-27 Thread Tal Galili
Hi Grant, I don't have a solution, but just to be clearer on your situation: One row from sheet 2 looks like this: BC1 BC2 1 01/02/87 33 3 1 03/03/87 44 3 ? Are you using only the first 6 columns for the data to be replicated, and using the other columns as some sort of indicators on when a