[R] Combining two tables without going through lot of ifelse statement

Rui Barradas ruipbarradas at sapo.pt
Fri Aug 23 15:31:38 CEST 2013


Hello,

Try the following.

x1 <- read.table(text = "
1 10
3  5
0  0
")

x2 <- read.table(text = "
2 10
0  0
3  5
")


x3 <- merge(x1, x2, by = "V1", all = TRUE)
res <- data.frame(x3[1], sum = rowSums(x3[-1], na.rm = TRUE))
res <- res[-(res$sum == 0), ]
res


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Em 23-08-2013 13:59, Anindya Sankar Dey escreveu:
> HI All,
>
> Suppose I have two table like below
>
> Table 1:
>
> 1 10
> 3  5
> 0  0
>
> Table 2:
>
> 2 10
> 0  0
> 3  5
>
>
> I need to create a new table like below
>
> Table 3:
>
> 1 10
> 2 10
> 3 10
>
> The row may interchange in table 3, but is there any way to do this instead
> of writing lot of if-else and loops?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>



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