Hi: This is a bit of a kluge, but works for your test case:
> df2[,setdiff(names(df1),names(df2))] <- NA > df1[,setdiff(names(df2),names(df1))] <- NA > df3 <- rbind(df1,df2) > df3 a b c 1 A B <NA> 2 A B <NA> 3 <NA> b c 4 <NA> b c -Ian On 5/15/11 7:41 PM, "Jonathan Flowers" <jonathanmflow...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hello, > >I would like to merge two data frames with partially overlapping column >names with an rbind-like operation. > >For the follow data frames, > >df1 <- data.frame(a=c("A","A"),b=c("B","B")) >df2 <- data.frame(b=c("b","b"),c=c("c","c")) > >I would like the output frame to be (with NAs where the frames don't >overlap) > >a b c >A B NA >A B NA >NA b c >NA b c > >I am familiar with ?merge and ?rbind, but neither seem to offer a means to >accomplish this. > >Thanks in advance. > >Jonathan > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >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. ______________________________________________ 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.