使用R组合多个data.frame

Question

I have several txt files in which each txt file contains 3 columns(A,B,C). Column A will be common to all txt files. Now I want to combine txt files with coulmn A appearing only once while the other columns (B and C) of respective files. I used cbind but it creates a data frame with repeats of column A, which I dont want. The column A must be repeated only once. Here is the R code I tried:

data <- read.delim(file.choose(),header=T)   
data2 <- read.delim(file.choose(),header=T)
data3 <- cbind(data1,data2)
write.table(data3,file="sample.txt",sep="\t",col.names=NA)

Answer 1

Unless your files are all sorted precisely the same, you'll need to use merge :

dat <- merge(data,data2,by="A")
dat <- merge(dat,data3,by="A")

This should automatically prevent you from having multiple A's, since merge knows they're all a key/index column. You'll likely want to rename the duplicate B's and C's before merging.