[R] subset rows in two dataframes

partofy at inoutbox.com partofy at inoutbox.com
Sun May 11 00:59:00 CEST 2008


Thanks for your reply.
In fact I dont get none error message, I just simply found that some
rows do not match in both dataframes. I thought it was some evident
problem with my code, but it seems it is not. I'll try to check and if I
can, I'll post a reproducible example.

Justin 



On Sat, 10 May 2008 18:42:51 -0400, "jim holtman" <jholtman at gmail.com>
said:
> This seems to work for me:
> 
> > set.seed(1)
> > df1 <- data.frame(v1=factor(sample(1:4,20,TRUE)), v2=factor(sample(1:3,20,TRUE)), v3=sample(1:3,20,TRUE))
> > df2 <- data.frame(v1=factor(sample(1:2,20,TRUE)), v2=factor(sample(1:2,20,TRUE)), v3=sample(1:2,20,TRUE))
> > subset(df1, (df1$v1 %in% df2$v1) & (df1$v2 %in% df2$v2) & (df1$v3 %in% df2$v3))
>    v1 v2 v3
> 2   2  1  2
> 5   1  1  2
> 11  1  2  2
> 14  2  1  1
> >
> 
> Exactly what problems are you having?  A sample of your actual data
> would be useful.
> 
> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 6:31 PM,  <partofy at inoutbox.com> wrote:
> > Dear list:
> >
> > I have two dataframes, say dat1 and dat2. Each has several variables but
> > 3 of each are common in both, (say v1, v2 and v3). v1 and v2 are
> > factores while v3 is numeric. Now, I need a subset to extract the rows
> > in which v1, v2 and v3 are the same in both dataframes.
> > I tried:
> >
> > subset(dat1, dat1$v1 %in% dat2$v1 & dat1$v2 %in% dat2$v2 & dat1$v3 %in%
> > dat2$v3)
> >
> > I dont know why, but this is not working as I was expecting. Any
> > suggestion to improve my code?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Justin
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