[R] Merging list of dataframes with reshape merge_all

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

To "solve" the problem you can use all.x and all.y but I think there are 
other problems with merge_all, in the example below it doesn't include 
df2$Y in the result df.


df1 <- data.frame(col1=1:10, col2=11:20, col3=21:30, X = rnorm(10))
df2 <- data.frame(col1=1:10, col2=11:20, col3=21:30, Y = rnorm(10))

merge_all(list(df1, df2), by=c("col1","col2","col3"), all.x=TRUE, 
all.y=TRUE)  # No Y column
merge(df1, df2, by=c("col1","col2","col3"), all.x=TRUE, all.y=TRUE)


Contact the package maintainer for more info.

maintainer('reshape')
[1] "Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com>"


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Em 11-01-2013 10:08, Johannes Radinger escreveu:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to merge mutliple dataframes from a list of dataframes by some common
> columns. The approach for simply merging 2 dataframes is working with:
>
> merge(df1,df2,by=c("col1","col2","col3"),all=TRUE)
>
> For mutliple dataframes in a list I try to use the merge_all command
> from the package reshape.
> The documentation states that the command takes a list of dataframes
> and other additional
> argument which are passed on to merge. So I tried (just for the case
> of two dataframes):
>
> merge_all(list(df1,df2),by=c("col1","col2","col3"),all=TRUE)
>
> but I get following error:
> Error in merge.data.frame(dfs[[1]], dfs[[2]], all = TRUE, sort = FALSE,  :
>    formal argument "all" matched by multiple actual arguments
>
> What do I need to do to solve that problem?
>
> PS: Just a related side-question: Why is merge_all not included in the
> "newer" package reshape2 as this is considered to be a reboot of the
> reshape package?
>
> /johannes
>
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