Answer by eddi for R data.table merge tables grouping by multiple columns
Use setkeyv:setkeyv(dt1, letters[-which(letters=="z")])setkeyv(dt2, letters[-which(letters=="z")])dt1[dt2]
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If you know the name of the different column this worksmerge(dt1,dt2,names(dt1)[-grep("z",names(dt1))])It also preserves the two original differing columns as dt$z.x and dt$z.y
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I have two huge data tables (dt1 and dt2) that are almost identical except for 1 column. I want to join the tables by the p-1 columns, where p <- ncol(dt1). Should I setkey() to the p-1 columns and...
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