dMerge {DataCombine}

Merges 2 data frames and report/drop/keeps only duplicates.

Description

dMerge merges 2 data frames and reports/drops/keeps only duplicates.

Usage

dMerge(data1, data2, by, Var, dropDups = TRUE, dupsOut = FALSE,
  fromLast = FALSE, all = FALSE, all.x = all, all.y = all,
  sort = TRUE, suffixes = c(".x", ".y"), incomparables = NULL)

Arguments

data1

a data frame. The first data frame to merge.

data2

a data frame. The second data frame to merge.

by

specifications of the columns used for merging.

Var

depricated.

dropDups

logical. Whether or not to drop duplicated rows based on Var. If dropDups = FALSE then it gives a count of the duplicated rows.

dupsOut

logical. If TRUE then a data frame only containing duplicated values is returned and dropDups is ignored.

fromLast

logical indicating if duplication should be considered from the reverse side. Only relevant if dropDups = TRUE.

all

logical; all = L is shorthand for all.x = L and all.y = L, where L is either TRUE or FALSE.

all.x

logical; if TRUE, then extra rows will be added to the output, one for each row in x that has no matching row in y. These rows will have NAs in those columns that are usually filled with values from y. The default is #' FALSE, so that only rows with data from both x and y are included in the output.

all.y

logical; analogous to all.x.

sort

logical. Should the result be sorted on the by columns?

suffixes

a character vector of length 2 specifying the suffixes to be used for making unique the names of columns in the result which not used for merging (appearing in by etc).

incomparables

values which cannot be matched. See match.

See Also

duplicated, merge