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How to join/spread dataset to possible coordinate location within zone in R

I hope anyone could give me a hints on which approach should I use. For example I have a data frame as follows:

Zone <- c(1, 1,1,1,2,2,2)
ID <- c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7)
df1 <- data.frame(Zone, ID)


Zone <- c(1, 1,1,2,2,2,2)
X <- c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7)
Y <- c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7)

df2 <- data.frame(Zone,X, Y)

However when I combined them using simple join as shown, it gives wrong output.

df3 <- df1 %>% inner_join(df2, by = "Zone")

I would like to get this possible result:

Zone <- c(1, 1,1,1,2,2,2)
ID <- c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7)
X <- c(1,2,3,2,5,6,7)
Y <- c(1,2,3,2,5,6,7)


df3 <- data.frame(Zone,ID, X, Y)

Thank you for your help or any approach that may work. Thanks

Solution

  • Try using the cbind function to column-bind the dataframes:

    df2 %>% cbind(df1$ID)

    Output:

      Zone X Y df1$ID
1    1 1 1      1
2    1 2 2      2
3    1 3 3      3
4    2 4 4      4
5    2 5 5      5
6    2 6 6      6
7    2 7 7      7