rbind dataframes with a different column name

Question

I\'ve 12 data frames, each one contains 6 columns: 5 have the same name, 1 is different. Then when I call rbind() I get:

Error in match.names(cla         


        

Answer 1

I would rename the columns. This is very easy with names() if the columns are in the same order.

df1 <- data.frame(one=1:10,two=11:20,three=21:30)

df2 <- data.frame(four=31:40,five=41:50,six=51:60)

names(df2)<-names(df1)

rbind(df1,df2)

or

df1 <- data.frame(one=1:10,two=11:20,three=21:30)

df2 <- data.frame(four=31:40,five=41:50,six=51:60)

rbind(df1,setnames(df2,names(df1)))

Result:

   one two three
1    1  11    21
2    2  12    22
3    3  13    23
4    4  14    24
5    5  15    25
6    6  16    26
7    7  17    27
8    8  18    28
9    9  19    29
10  10  20    30
11  31  41    51
12  32  42    52
13  33  43    53
14  34  44    54
15  35  45    55
16  36  46    56
17  37  47    57
18  38  48    58
19  39  49    59
20  40  50    60