The sqldf R package can do that using SQL syntax. See: http://sqldf.googlecode.com
The R merge command can do a join but not using SQL syntax. See ?merge On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Willa Wei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings, > > I am new to R and have some background knowledge about SQL. I'd like to > know whether there is a way to manipulate the R datasets (or data > frames) using SQL statements. For example, I have two data frames and > both of them have a column called "id", then I want to join this two > data frames into one. In SQL, we can just simply use the join comment. > What should we do in R? Is there any package that allows us to run SQL > statements with R data? > > Thank you in advance for your help, > Willa > > This message contains confidential information and is in...{{dropped:8}} > > ______________________________________________ > 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.