[R] Looping Through DataFrames with Differing Lenghts

Mark Sharp
Mon, 27 Mar 2017 20:15:39 -0000

Make some small dataframes of just a few rows that illustrate the problem
structure. Make a third that has the result you want. You will get an answer
very quickly. Without a self-contained reproducible problem, results vary.

Mark
R. Mark Sharp, Ph.D.
msharp at TxBiomed.org





> On Mar 27, 2017, at 3:09 PM, Paul Bernal <paulbernal07 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Dear friends,
>
> I have one dataframe which contains 378 observations, and another one,
> containing 362 observations.
>
> Both dataframes have two columns, one date column and another one with the
> number of transits.
>
> I wanted to come up with a code so that I could fill in the dates that are
> missing in one of the dataframes and replace the column of transits with
> the value NA.
>
> I have tried several things but R obviously complains that the length of
> the dataframes are different.
>
> How can I solve this?
>
> Any guidance will be greatly appreciated,
>
> Best regards,
>
> Paul
>
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