Hi Rui, thank you so far for your answer... ...as i found these other problems also myself, I decided to go for a looping apporach with the base merge command and always add a new dataframe to the old one (growing dataframe).
/johannes On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Rui Barradas <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt> wrote: > 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.wick...@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 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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.