Steven Lubitz <slubitz1 <at> yahoo.com> writes: > Thank you - this is very helpful. However I realized that with my real data sets (not the example I have here), > I also have different numbers of columns in each data frame. rbind doesn't seem to like this. Here's a > modified example: > > x <- data.frame(item1=c(NA,NA,3,4,5), item2=c(1,NA,NA,4,5), item3=c(NA,2,NA,4,NA), id=1:5) > y <- data.frame(item1=c(NA,2,NA,4,5,6), item2=c(NA,NA,3,4,5,NA), id=1:6) > > rbind(x,y)
You should add dummy <NA> variables to each partial data frame such that they look the same, and do the rbind later. Dieter ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
