Get the Relational Join of 2 Data Sets

DESCRIPTION:

Join 2 input data sets with the common columns acting as key columns.

This function requires the bigdata library section to be loaded.

USAGE:

bd.relational.join(x, y)

REQUIRED ARGUMENTS:

x
a bdFrame or data.frame.
y
a bdFrame or data.frame.

OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS:

VALUE:

A bdFrame or data.frame containing the union of each data sets' columns and a row for each combination of rows in the input relations where the given rows have the same value for the common columns of the input relations, if any.

DETAILS:

This function takes two inputs ( bdFrame or data.frame ). The output contains the union of each data sets' columns and a row for each combination of rows in the input relations where the given rows have the same value for the common columns of the input relations, if any.

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EXAMPLES:

## Get a data.frame with columns "a", "b", & "c" and rows
## where column "a" is 8, 9, or 10.
bd.relational.join(data.frame(a=1:10, b=11:20, c=21:30), data.frame(a=8:20))