Error subset data .txt

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Hello,

my question may be very simle, but I don't find any answer so I would like to ask, I have two different .txt files, which is:
idx_DGG_land.txt (1229504 obs., 1variable) & isea4h9.txt (2621450obs., 5 variables)
I succesfully import the files, but my next step is get the index of DGG over land in the isea grid
here it is my code as far:

#covers the land surfaces but also on the ocean surfaces
isea4h9<- read.table("C:/.../isea4h9.txt", quote=""", comment.char="")
#the indexes of points only on land surfaces
idx_DGG_Land<- read.table("C:/.../idx_DGG_land.txt", quote=""", comment.char="")
DGG_land<-isea4h9(idx_DGG_land,: )
And I get an error that says that isea4h9 is not a function

As data frame can not work because has different rows. How can I get only DGG over land are needed??
Thank you in advance,
Varvara

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It'll be easier to help you if you can turn this into a self-contained reprex (short for reproducible example)—more detail, below. However, from what you've shown, it seems that you're, in effect, calling isea4h9 as though it were a function (parentheses after with an assignment operator to a new variable), which it either is not, or you haven't attached the package in which it is a function (given that it's what you name the data that you read in, I'm guessing it's the former).

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If you are trying to merge the two data-frames row-by-row, while excluding all the data that is "offshore", then I think you should checkout the left_join() function from the dplyr package:

library(dplyr)
help(left_join)

The ability to achieve this will depend on what common data columns you have in both data-frames that uniquely identify each row. Another member of the dplyr "join" family may be required depending on the structure of your two data-frames.