[R] appending similar data frames?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 03 Dec 2001 14:35:54 -0500, you wrote in message
<87adx06qqt.fsf at lumen.med.iupui.edu>:

>Dear R gang,
>
>Can anyone help me sort out how to append one data frame to
>another while adding a factor to distinguish which was the
>original frame?

As long as the names match exactly in the two original frames, you
should be able to do it using "rbind" and "cbind":

Specifically:

 rbind( cbind(x, 'x'), cbind(y, 'y') )

What the cbind's are doing is adding a column to the original
dataframes giving their name.  Then the rbind glues the two dataframes
together.

If the names don't match exactly, then you should rename things so
they do.

Duncan Murdoch
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