Thanks for the help -- merge.data.table was being used!
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Steve Lianoglou < mailinglist.honey...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Ted, > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Ted Rosenbaum <ted.rosenb...@yale.edu> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to use the merge command in the data.tables package. > > However, when I run the command I am not sure if it is running the merge > > command from the base package or the merge command from data.tables. > > When I run "methods(generic.function="merge")' it informs me that > > 'merge.data.table" is "non-visible". > > I am just trying to run the merge command on two data tables using the > > index, is there anything else that I need to do (my googling has simply > left > > me uncertain about how to get this to work). > > Thanks for your help! > > Assuming everything is "normal", I'm going to bet the merge.data.table > function is the one that is being used. > > Assuming you are using version <= 1.5.3, though, an easy way to check > is to see if the result of the merge ignores the `suffixes` argument. > The behavior of merge is being changed for the next version, but this > "feature" is an easy way for you to check which merge function is > being used in the current version ;-) > > Hope that helps, > -steve > > -- > Steve Lianoglou > Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology > | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center > | Weill Medical College of Cornell University > Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
