[R] Paste Funtion Help

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 04/02/2016 3:33 AM, SHIVI BHATIA wrote:
> HI Team,
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> Need help with the below syntax.
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> merge.salaries[, name:=paste("nameFirst","nameLast")]. Here merge.salaries
> is the data set I have merged.
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> There are 2 columns nameFirst and nameLast I need to merge these two into
> one and name as name however I can getting an error:
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> Error in `[.data.frame`(merge.salaries, , `:=`(name, paste("nameFirst",  :
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>    could not find function ":="

It looks as though you're using syntax defined by the data.table 
package, but you don't have it attached.

Duncan Murdoch
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> Please advice.
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> Thanks, Shivi
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> Mb: 9891002021
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