[R] Merging two columns of unequal length

[Jeff Newmiller]

You can't do that. You can either make a different data frame, or you can stack the data in additional rows. If you make your example reproducible, we may be able to give more specific help. 

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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example

http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Reproducibility.html
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On December 12, 2016 3:41:01 PM PST, Bailey Hewitt <bailster at hotmail.com> wrote:
>Dear R Help,
>
>
>I am trying to put together two columns of unequal length in a data
>frame. Unfortunately, so far I have been unsuccessful in the functions
>I have tried (such as cbind). The code I am currently using is : (I
>have highlighted the code that is not working)
>
>
>y<- mydata[,2:75]
>
>year <- mydata$Year
>
>res <- data.frame()
>
>for (i in 1:74){
>
>  y.val <- y[,i]
>
>  lake.lm= lm(y.val ~ year)
>
>  lake.res=residuals(lake.lm)
>
>  new.res <- data.frame(lake.res=lake.res)
>
>  colnames(new.res) <- colnames(y)[i]
>
>#cbind doesn't work because of the unequal lengths of my data columns
>
>  res <- cbind(res, new.res)
>
>  print(res)
>
>}
>
>
>mydata is a csv file with "Year" from 1950 on as my first column and
>then each proceeding column has a lake name and a day of year (single
>number) in each row.
>
>
>Please let me know if there is any more information I can provide as I
>am new to emailing in this list. Thank you for your time!
>
>
>Bailey Hewitt
>
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