Thankyou very much Berend. It worked!!! Have a great weekend!! :) Eliza > Subject: Re: [R] replacing columns with same names > From: b...@xs4all.nl > Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:24:03 +0100 > CC: r-help@r-project.org > To: eliza_bo...@hotmail.com > > > On 14-11-2014, at 16:04, eliza botto <eliza_bo...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Dear useRs, > > I have two matrices > >> dput(EB) > > structure(1:15, .Dim = c(3L, 5L), .Dimnames = list(NULL, c("A", "B", "C", > > "D", "E"))) > > > >> dput(EA) > > structure(31:36, .Dim = c(3L, 2L), .Dimnames = list(NULL, c("D", "E"))) > > I have two question > > 1-Generally speaking, How can I replace the columns of matrix with the > > other columns having same names? > > 2-Precisely, how can I replace column "D" and "E" of "EB" with "D" and "E" > > of "EA"? > > Thankyou very very much in advance. > > > How about > > colnms <- c("D","E") > EB[,colnms] <- EA[,colnms] > > Berend > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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