The rbind on empty and nonempty data frames behaves inconsistently. I am
not sure if by design.
In the first example, first row is deleted, which may or may not be on
purpose:
df1 <- data.frame()
df2 <- data.frame(foo=c(1, 2), bar=c("a", "b"))
rbind(df1, df2)
foo bar
2 2 b
Now if we continue:
df1 <- data.frame(matrix(0, 0, 2))
names(df1) <- names(df2)
foo bar
2 1 a
3 2 b
So now data frames combined successfully, but the row names have been
increased by one.
Finally, if row names are strings, it works okay:
row.names(df2) <- c("row1", "row2")
rbind(df1, df2)
foo bar
row1 1 a
row2 2 b
Is this behaviour by design?
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