[R] S-Plus function merge.data.frame() in R?

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> Thomas Lumley writes:

> On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Kurt Hornik wrote:
>> >>>>> Thomas Lumley writes:
>> > It might be easier to port the merge.data.frame function from the
>> > Statlib S archive, which is less likely to have been optimised for
>> > S-PLUS. The other advantage is that it would have a better chance of
>> > being legal to distribute the resulting code.
>> 
>> Better  chance yes, but are we sure about this?  The file says
>> 
>> Copyright (1994)
>> Contributed by:  Raymond W. FALK, Ph.D. (24Sep1994, 18Oct1994)
>> 
>> so maybe we should contact the author first?

> Definitely.  But it seems clear that it would be at least ok to port
> it for one's own use and most people don't mind their code being
> redistributed if you ask first (with, of course, important
> exceptions).

Right.  Actually, I think merge.data.frame() would be something nice to
have, so if someone wants to contact the author ...

-k
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