Thank you both. For my purposes I need the for statement. I looked into merge
but what I wound up doing was installing the package 'compare' and using the
if statement /if((compare(dfCity[k,1], dfState[j,1],
dropLevels=TRUE)==TRUE){do something}/. This seemed to behave the way I
wanted.
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Factors include a comprehensive list of all possible values they can assume.
Your name columns have different numbers of names, so they are really very
different factors. The best solution for you is to convert those columns to
character.
You also ought to learn how to use the merge function be
Hi
> *Bottom Line: How can I compare the individual components of two data
frames
> with different row lengths without the levels interfering?*
>
> Example: I have two data frames to those respectively named 'dfCity' and
> 'dfState' that have the following output:
>
> dfCity
>
> Name
*Bottom Line: How can I compare the individual components of two data frames
with different row lengths without the levels interfering?*
Example: I have two data frames to those respectively named 'dfCity' and
'dfState' that have the following output:
dfCity
Name City
1Bill
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