R dplyr left join - multiple returned values and new rows: how to ask for the first match only?

Question

Let\'s say I have a list of suburb names, crime rate and their council names on a separate table.

Answer 1

You can do this using the plyr package and the join() function. The equivalent to left_join(table1, table2, by=Suburb) but only using the first Suburb match from table2 would be: join(table1, table2, by=Suburb, type="left", match="first"). I'm not sure what the equivalent is in the dplyr package, though I would love to know myself.