Hi,

Note that if your list of 200k data frames is the result of splitting
a big data frame, then trying to rbind the result of the split is
equivalent to reordering the orginal big data frame. More precisely,

  do.call(rbind, unname(split(df, f)))

is equivalent to

  df[order(f), , drop=FALSE]

(except for the rownames), but the latter is *much* faster!

Cheers,
H.


On 06/27/2016 08:51 AM, Witold E Wolski wrote:
I have a list (variable name data.list) with approx 200k data.frames
with dim(data.frame) approx 100x3.

a call

data <-do.call("rbind", data.list)

does not complete - run time is prohibitive (I killed the rsession
after 5 minutes).

I would think that merging data.frame's is a common operation. Is
there a better function (more performant) that I could use?

Thank you.
Witold





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