Efficiently bind multiple data frames by row and column
This is an efficient implementation of the common pattern of
do.call(rbind, dfs)
or do.call(cbind, dfs)
for binding many
data frames into one.
bind_rows(..., .id = NULL) bind_cols( ..., .name_repair = c("unique", "universal", "check_unique", "minimal") )
... |
Data frames to combine. Each argument can either be a data frame, a list that could be a data frame, or a list of data frames. When row-binding, columns are matched by name, and any missing columns will be filled with NA. When column-binding, rows are matched by position, so all data frames must have the same number of rows. To match by value, not position, see mutate-joins. |
.id |
Data frame identifier. When |
.name_repair |
One of |
The output of bind_rows()
will contain a column if that column
appears in any of the inputs.
bind_rows()
and bind_cols()
return the same type as
the first input, either a data frame, tbl_df
, or grouped_df
.
one <- starwars[1:4, ] two <- starwars[9:12, ] # You can supply data frames as arguments: bind_rows(one, two) # The contents of lists are spliced automatically: bind_rows(list(one, two)) bind_rows(split(starwars, starwars$homeworld)) bind_rows(list(one, two), list(two, one)) # In addition to data frames, you can supply vectors. In the rows # direction, the vectors represent rows and should have inner # names: bind_rows( c(a = 1, b = 2), c(a = 3, b = 4) ) # You can mix vectors and data frames: bind_rows( c(a = 1, b = 2), tibble(a = 3:4, b = 5:6), c(a = 7, b = 8) ) # When you supply a column name with the `.id` argument, a new # column is created to link each row to its original data frame bind_rows(list(one, two), .id = "id") bind_rows(list(a = one, b = two), .id = "id") bind_rows("group 1" = one, "group 2" = two, .id = "groups") # Columns don't need to match when row-binding bind_rows(tibble(x = 1:3), tibble(y = 1:4)) ## Not run: # Rows do need to match when column-binding bind_cols(tibble(x = 1:3), tibble(y = 1:2)) # even with 0 columns bind_cols(tibble(x = 1:3), tibble()) ## End(Not run) bind_cols(one, two) bind_cols(list(one, two))
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