indx <- match(u$nam, v$enter, nomatch = 0)
u$coe[indx != 0] <- v$coeff[indx]
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On Feb 5, 2012, at 15:45, Valerie Moore <vmoore2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have two data frames (u and v).
>
>> u
> coe nam
> 1 0 Time
> 2 0 Poten
> 3 0 AdvExp
> 4 0 Share
> 5 0 Change
> 6 0 Accounts
> 7 0 Work
> 8 0 Rating
>
>
>> v
> coeff enter
> 1 0.7272727 Accounts
> 2 0.3211112 Time
> 3 0.0500123 Poten
>
>
> I want to update the values of coe in u by using the values ofcoeff in v.
> That is, I want to get the following result
>
>> u
> coe nam
> 1 0.3211112 Time
> 2 0.0500123 Poten
> 3 0 AdvExp
> 4 0 Share
> 5 0 Change
> 6 0.7272727 Accounts
> 7 0 Work
> 8 0 Rating
>
>
> OR the following result is also acceptable:
>
> 0.3211112 0.0500123 0 0 0 0.7272727 0 0
>
>
> I tried the following, but the result is not right.
> replace(coe,colnames,coeff)
> [1] 0.7272727 0.0500123 0.3211112 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
> [8] 0.0000000
>
>
> PLEASE HELP ME.
>
> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
>
>
>
>
> ~valerie
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