Join two tables based on latitude longitude columns?

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Hi everyone,

I want to perform an inner-join on two sets of data that have no unique identifier, but do have unique latitude and longitudes (separate columns).

Can anyone suggest a method for joining two tables based on two columns?

Sincerely,
Schyler Brown

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Here's the base R way:

merge(table1, table2, by.x=c("lat","long"), by.y=c("lat","long"))

And here's the dplyr way:

table1>%>
    inner_join(table2, by=c("lat"="lat", "long"="long"))

These both assume that latitude and longitude are perfect matches.

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It's really that simple huh? Thank you so much dephilli!!!!