How to join two data frames with the same row order using dplyr in R?

When we have one common column in two data frames then joining of those data frames might be used to create a bigger data frame. This will help us to analyze a combined data set with many characteristics. We can do this by using inner_join function of dplyr package.

Example

Consider the below data frames −

> set.seed(111)
> x1<-rep(c(1,2,3,4,5),times=4)
> R1<-sample(1:100,20)
> df1<-data.frame(x1,R1)
> df1
  x1  R1
 1 1  78
 2 2  84
 3 3  83
 4 4  47
 5 5  25
 6 1  59
 7 2  69
 8 3  35
 9 4  72
10 5  26
11 1  49
12 2  45
13 3  74
14 4   8
15 5 100
16 1  96
17 2  24
18 3  48
19 4  95
20 5   7
> x1<-rep(c(1,2),times=5)
> R2<-sample(1:100,10)
> df2<-data.frame(x1,R2)
> df2
x1 R2
1 1 21
2 2 15
3 1 1
4 2 9
5 1 63
6 2 40
7 1 25
8 2 35
9 1 71
10 2 52

Loading dplyr package −

> library(dplyr)

Merging two data frames −

> inner_join(df2,df1)
Joining, by = "x1"
x1 R2 R1
1 1 21 78
2 1 21 59
3 1 21 49
4 1 21 96
5 2 15 84
6 2 15 69
7 2 15 45
8 2 15 24
9 1 1 78
10 1 1 59
11 1 1 49
12 1 1 96
13 2 9 84
14 2 9 69
15 2 9 45
16 2 9 24
17 1 63 78
18 1 63 59
19 1 63 49
20 1 63 96
21 2 40 84
22 2 40 69
23 2 40 45
24 2 40 24
25 1 25 78
26 1 25 59
27 1 25 49
28 1 25 96
29 2 35 84
30 2 35 69
31 2 35 45
32 2 35 24
33 1 71 78
34 1 71 59
35 1 71 49
36 1 71 96
37 2 52 84
38 2 52 69
39 2 52 45
40 2 52 24

Nizamuddin Siddiqui

Updated on: 12-Aug-2020

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