You could do it with zoo:
DF1 <- data.frame(Datetime = ISOdate(2000, 1:2, 1), Temp = 1:2) DF2 <- data.frame(Datetime = ISOdate(2000, 2:3, 1), Temp = 3:4) library(zoo) # convert to zoo z1 <- zoo(DF1[,2], DF1[,1]) z2 <- zoo(DF2[,2], DF2[,1]) # merge z <- merge(z1, z2, all = TRUE) # take rowmeans zz <- zoo(rowMeans(z, na.rm = TRUE), time(z)) # or DF3 <- data.frame(data = rowMeans(z, na.rm = TRUE), Time = time(z)) On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:36 PM, stephen sefick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have two dataframes in R that were tab seperated .txt files > > y<-read.table("foo.txt", header=T) > x<-read.table("foo.txt", header=T) > > these are set up like this: > > Datetime Temp > 01/01/07 00:01 11.5 > 01/01/07 00:16 11.6 > > etc etc to 66000 rows in y and 33000 rows in x > > The two files overlap with the same data for a period of time but > contain different values outside of these. Is there a way to merge > these two data sets based on the shared date time column into one > large dataset of ~90,000 lines. I want to eventually make this into a > time series with frequency= 1/15. > > Thanks > > Stephen > -- > Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are > so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and > make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the > annoying little problems of being mammals. > > -K. Mullis > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.