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Rafael
Rafael

Reputation: 3196

full_join by variable as column names

I'm trying to use dplyr's full_join to combine two data.frames, for example: 

col1 = 'b'
col2 = 'd'

df1 = data.frame(a = 1:3, b = 1:3)
df2 = data.frame(a = 1:3, d = 1:3)


full_join(df1, df2, c('a' = 'a', col1 = col2))

but it returns

Error: by can't contain join column col1 which is missing from LHS

I'm looking for an output similar to

merge(df1, df2, by.x = c('a', col1), by.y = c('a', col2))
  a b
1 1 1
2 2 2
3 3 3

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1878

Answers (4)

moodymudskipper
moodymudskipper

Reputation: 47350

All credits to @MrFlick in the duplicate link, slightly modified for OP's example :

full_join(df1, df2, by = c("a",setNames(col2, col1)))

Upvotes: 1

Sotos
Sotos

Reputation: 51622

You can use rename_, i.e.,

library(dplyr)

full_join(df1, rename_(df2, .dots = setNames(col2, col1)))

which gives,

#Joining, by = c("a", "b")
  a b
1 1 1
2 2 2
3 3 3

Posting alternatives as per @akrun and @mt1022 comments,

#akrun
full_join(df1, rename_at(df2, .vars = col2, funs(paste0(col1))))
full_join(df1, rename(df2, !!(col1) := !!rlang::sym(col2)))

#mt1022
full_join(df1, rename_at(df2, col2, ~col1))

Upvotes: 4

Antonios
Antonios

Reputation: 1937

This will reproduce your result, is this what you look for though?

full_join(df1, df2, by="a")%>%select(-d)

Upvotes: 0

Terru_theTerror
Terru_theTerror

Reputation: 5017

Change the join like this:

full_join(df1, df2, by=c('b'='d'))  
a.x b a.y
1   1 1   1
2   2 2   2
3   3 3   3

Upvotes: 1

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