[R] Concatenating data frames in R versus SAS

[David Winsemius]

On Aug 23, 2012, at 1:55 PM, ramoss wrote:

> I am trying to concatenate 2 datasets that don't have exactly the same
> column.
> In SAS I did: data summary;
>  set agency prop;
> run;
> No problem
> in R I get error message
> summary <-rbind(agency,prop)
> Error in match.names(clabs, names(xi)) :
>  names do not match previous names

This would be the point at which I would want to know the results of:

str(agency)
str(prop)

>
> But when I use rbin.fill, that overwrites the second file w/ first  
> one.
> Is there a way to replicate the sas process in R?
>
> Thanks in advance
>

Code... we want code.  .... and data.

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David Winsemius, MD
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