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How to merge data in R using R merge, dplyr, or data.table
Oct. 6, 2022, 7:05 p.m. |
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R has a number of quick, elegant ways to join data frames by a common column. I’d like to show you three of them:
- base R’s merge() function,
- dplyr’s join family of functions, and
- data.table’s bracket syntax.
Get and import the data
For this example I’ll use one of my favorite demo data sets — flight delay times from the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. If you want to follow along, head to http://bit.ly/USFlightDelays and download data for the time …
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