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[Peter Dalgaard]

Vincze Orsolya wrote:
> Dear all,I had just started to learn R. So my question may sound a bit
> stupid for you.
> Is that possible to match and merge two tables in R? I mean I have two
> tables, in the first I have two columns: RING NUMBER,  WEIGHT and CAPTURE

Err, ... for large values of "two"? Or is one of the three a rowname?

> DATE, in the second RING NUMBER, SEX  and CAPTURE DATE.
> 1) First I want to see, if to the ring numbers are the same, the capture
> dates are too?
> 2) And second if ring numbers are the same, to import the sex from the
> second table in the first.
> 
> Is that possible?

Yes. It's a job for merge()

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