R help - Feb 2009 - (no subject)

Dear all,I had just started to learn R. So my question may sound a bit
stupid for you.
Is that possible to match and merge two tables in R? I mean I have two
tables, in the first I have two columns: RING NUMBER,  WEIGHT and CAPTURE
DATE, in the second RING NUMBER, SEX  and CAPTURE DATE.
1) First I want to see, if to the ring numbers are the same, the capture
dates are too?
2) And second if ring numbers are the same, to import the sex from the
second table in the first.

Is that possible?

Thanks

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Vincze Orsolya wrote:
> Dear all,I had just started to learn R. So my question may sound a bit
> stupid for you.
> Is that possible to match and merge two tables in R? I mean I have two
> tables, in the first I have two columns: RING NUMBER,  WEIGHT and CAPTURE
Err, ... for large values of "two"? Or is one of the three a rowname?
> DATE, in the second RING NUMBER, SEX  and CAPTURE DATE.
> 1) First I want to see, if to the ring numbers are the same, the capture
> dates are too?
> 2) And second if ring numbers are the same, to import the sex from the
> second table in the first.
> 
> Is that possible?
Yes. It's a job for merge()

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