wrMisc (version 1.8.1)

mergeVectors: Merge Named Vectors

Description

This function allows merging for multiple simple named vectors (each element needs to be named). Basically, all elements carrying the same name across different input-vectors will be ailgned in the same coumn of the output (input-vectors appear as lines). If vectors are not given using a name (see first example below), they will be names 'x.1' etc (see argument namePrefix).

Usage

mergeVectors(
  ...,
  namePrefix = "x.",
  NAto0 = FALSE,
  callFrom = NULL,
  silent = FALSE
)

Arguments

...

all vectors that need to be merged

namePrefix

(character) prefix to numers used when vectors are not given with explicit names (second exammple)

NAto0

(logical) optional replacemet of NAs by 0

callFrom

(character) allow easier tracking of message produced

silent

(logical) suppres messages

Value

matrix of merged values

Details

Note : The arguments 'namePrefix', 'NAto0', 'callFrom' and 'silent' must be given with full name to be recognized as such (and not get considered as vector for merging).

See Also

merge (for two data.frames)

Examples

# NOT RUN {
x1 <- c(a=1, b=11, c=21)
x2 <- c(b=12, c=22, a=2)
x3 <- c(a=3, d=43)
mergeVectors(vect1=x1, vect2=x2, vect3=x3)
x4 <- 41:44     # no names - not conform for merging
mergeVectors(x1, x2, x3, x4)
# }