Off topic:Merging data coloum wise in R

Question

[David_emir]

Hello All,

I am using R to merge two different CSV file into one new file. both of them has got gene name (1st column) same and the subsequent columns will be my sample ID, I need the output file as follow'

1st_file.csv

Gene    sample1 sample2 smpleN
a   1   4   7
b   2   5   8
c   3   6   9

2nd_file.csv

Gene    sample3 sample4 smpleN1
a   1   4   7
b   2   5   8
c   3   6   9

I need to have a combined file a

Gene    sample1 sample2 smpleN  sample3 sample4 smpleN1
a   1   4   7   1   4   7
b   2   5   8   2   5   8
c   3   6   9   3   6   9

Please let me know how to get this in R