Continuing with Jeff's point: do you know for certain that the serial number in row 5 of one file corresponds to the 'work order number' in row 5 of a different file? Ideally this could be verified based on some sort of identifier that appears as a column in both files and you could match up corresponding rows in the two files by matching this identifier (or possibly multiple identifiers.) This type of matching is called a join and joins are supported in the dplyr package (which also provides the bind_cols() function you referred to.) Check out ?dplyr::join
HTH, Eric On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 7:55 AM Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote: > Do you know for certain that the rows are in the same order? then yes... > cbind or bind_cols would do it. I would be surprised to find such files... > but it is possible. > > On December 3, 2019 9:37:34 PM PST, Thomas Subia via R-help < > r-help@r-project.org> wrote: > >Colleagues, > >I've got several text files which contain data for each metric I need > >to report on.One text file contains the serial number data. Another has > >customer and work order number. Another has test data. All text files > >have the same number of rows but all have different numbers of columns. > > > >I was thinking about using bind_cols() to do this. > > > >Am I on the right track here? > >All the best, > >Thomas SubiaStatistician / Sr. Quality EngineerIMG Precision Inc. > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > >______________________________________________ > >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > >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. > > -- > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
