Message-ID: <6rllvqvpq9.fsf@bates4.stat.wisc.edu>
Date: 2003-06-25T04:46:24Z
From: Douglas Bates
Subject: joining columns as in a relational database
In-Reply-To: <1056500670.10377.38.camel@localhost>
Marc Schwartz <MSchwartz@medanalytics.com> writes:
> On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 18:07, Douglas Bates wrote:
> > Several questions:
> >
> > - Am I duplicating existing functionality?
...
> Prof. Bates,
>
> Perhaps I am not seeing all of the details but a quick (perhaps too
> quick) review would suggest that merge(), which is in base, would at
> least be a parallel function.
No, you are seeing better than I. I had not thought to look up merge
- I only thought of join. I can use merge. The answer to my first
question is that I am duplicating functionality.
It was an interesting exercise. Thanks for pointing out merge.