Just load the data frames into a list and give that list to rbind. It is way
more efficient to be able to identify how big the final data frame is going to
have to be at the beginning and preallocate the result memory than to
incrementally allocate larger and larger data frames along the way using Reduce.
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On August 10, 2014 11:51:22 AM PDT, Grant Rettke <g...@wisdomandwonder.com>
wrote:
>Good afternoon,
>
>Today I was working on a practice problem. It was simple, and perhaps
>even realistic. It looked like this:
>
>• Get a list of all the data files in a directory
>• Load each file into a dataframe
>• Merge them into a single data frame
>
>Because all of the columns were the same, the simplest solution in my
>mind was to `Reduce' the vector of dataframes with a call to
>`merge'. That worked fine, I got what was expected. That is key
>actually. It is literally a one-liner, and there will never be index
>or scoping errors with it.
>
>Now with that in mind, what is the idiomatic way? Do people usually do
>something else because it is /faster/ (by some definition)?
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Grant Rettke | ACM, ASA, FSF, IEEE, SIAM
>g...@wisdomandwonder.com | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/
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