Gabor Grothendieck schrieb:
What version of R are you using?

"R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)" (running Windows)



I get this:

do.call(cbind, mylist)
  df1.pos df1.data df2.pos df2.data df3.pos df3.data
1       A        2       A        6       A        9
2       B        6       B        2       B        3
3       C        3       C        9       C        6
4       D        1       D        7       D        2
5       E        9       E        5       E        1
R.version.string
[1] "R version 2.8.1 Patched (2008-12-26 r47350)"

In which case

ALL <- do.call(cbind, mylist)
ALL <- ALL[regexpr("data", names(ALL)) > 0]
names(ALL) <- sub("[.].*", "", names(ALL))
ALL
  df1 df2 df3
1   2   6   9
2   6   2   3
3   3   9   6
4   1   7   2
5   9   5   1


On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Antje <niederlein-rs...@yahoo.de> wrote:
Hi there,

I have a list of dataframes (generated by reading multiple files) and all
dataframes are comparable in dimension and column names. They also have a
common column, which, I'd like to use for merging. To give a simple example
of what I have:

df1 <- data.frame(c(LETTERS[1:5]), c(2,6,3,1,9))
names(df1) <- c("pos", "data")
df3 <- df2 <- df1
df2$data <- c(6,2,9,7,5)
df3$data <- c(9,3,6,2,1)
mylist <- list(df1,df2,df3)
names(mylist) <- c("df1","df2","df3")

mylist
$df1
 pos data
1   A    2
2   B    6
3   C    3
4   D    1
5   E    9

$df2
 pos data
1   A    6
2   B    2
3   C    9
4   D    7
5   E    5

$df3
 pos data
1   A    9
2   B    3
3   C    6
4   D    2
5   E    1

If I use do.call("cbind"), I'll end up with something like this

  pos data pos data pos data
1   A    2   A    6   A    9
2   B    6   B    2   B    3
3   C    3   C    9   C    6
4   D    1   D    7   D    2
5   E    9   E    5   E    1


but now, I don't know anymore which data comes from which dataframe... and I
have the column "pos" multiple times...

Instead I'd like to have it like this:

  pos df1 df2 df3
1   A    2   6   9
2   B    6   2   3
3   C    3   9   6
4   D    1   7   2
5   E    9   5   1

How, can I realize it? (The list, I'm working with has not just 3 data
frames like given in my example, so I need to automize it)


Antje

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