[BioC] How to do a Vlookup-type function using a value range

James W. MacDonald jmacdon at uw.edu
Tue May 6 22:06:49 CEST 2014


Hi Elena,

Why does 14 return c?

Best,

Jim


On Tuesday, May 06, 2014 3:34:41 PM, Elena Sorokin wrote:
> I have two data frames as input:
>
>> small  Position
> 1        6
> 2       14
> 3        1
>
>
>> lookup_table  Start Stop Value
> 1     1    5     a
> 2     6   10     b
> 3    11   15     c
>
> And I want the following output:
>
>> outcome  Position Value
> 1        6     b
> 2       14     c
> 3        1     a
>
> What is some R code that I can write to accomplish this task?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Elena
>
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