We can have multiple keys in our dataset. Consider the following dataset where we have years or a list of products bought by the customer.
If we try to merge both tables, R throws an error. To remedy the situation, we can pass two key-pairs variables. That is, ID and year which appear in both datasets. We can use the following code to merge table1 and table 2
df_primary <- tribble(
~ID, ~year, ~items,
"A", 2015,3,
"A", 2016,7,
"A", 2017,6,
"B", 2015,4,
"B", 2016,8,
"B", 2017,7,
"C", 2015,4,
"C", 2016,6,
"C", 2017,6)
df_secondary <- tribble(
~ID, ~year, ~prices,
"A", 2015,9,
"A", 2016,8,
"A", 2017,12,
"B", 2015,13,
"B", 2016,14,
"B", 2017,6,
"C", 2015,15,
"C", 2016,15,
"C", 2017,13)
left_join(df_primary, df_secondary, by = c('ID', 'year'))
