[R] merging data frames

jim holtman jholtman at gmail.com
Mon Jun 14 15:33:14 CEST 2010


Put the rownames as another column in your dataframe so that it
remains with the data.  After merging, you can then use it as the
"rownames"

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Assa Yeroslaviz <frymor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is it possible to merge two data frames while preserving the row names of
> the bigger data frame?
>
> I have two data frames which  i would like to combine. While doing so I
> always loose the row names. When I try to append this, I get the error
> message, that I have non-unique names. This although I used unique command
> on the data frame where the double inputs supposedly are
>
> thanks for the help
>
> Assa
>
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