Due to time constraints, I've decided to use data tables in my code instead of data frames, as they are much faster. However, I still want the functionality of data frames. I need to merge two data tables, conserving all values (like setting all=TRUE in merge).
Some example code:
> x1 = data.frame(index = 1:10)
> y1 = data.frame(index = c(2,4,6), weight = c(.2, .5, .3))
> x1
index
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 6
7 7
8 8
9 9
10 10
> y1
index weight
1 2 0.2
2 4 0.5
3 6 0.3
> merge(x,y, all=TRUE)
index weight
[1,] 1 NA
[2,] 2 1
[3,] 3 NA
[4,] 4 2
[5,] 5 NA
[6,] 6 3
[7,] 7 NA
[8,] 8 NA
[9,] 9 NA
[10,] 10 NA
Now can I do a similar thing with data tables? (The NA's don't necessarily have to stay, I change them to 0's anyways).
> x2 = data.table(index = 1:10, key ="index")
> y2 = data.table(index = c(2,4,6), weight= c(.3,.5,.2))
I know you can merge, but I also know that there is a faster way.