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2012 Aug 19
2
merging and obtaining the nearest value
...would like to know if there is a short solution in R for this
merging problem...
Let say I have a dataset A as:
TYPE DATE
A 2
A 5
A 20
B 10
B 2
(there can be duplicates for the same type and date)
and I have another dataset B as :
TYPE Special_Date
A 2
A 6
A 20
A 22
B 5
B 6
The question is : I would like to obtain the difference between the
date of each observation in A and the closest special date in B with
the same type. In case of ties I would take the latest da...