Combine a list of data frames into one data frame

Question

I have code that at one place ends up with a list of data frames which I really want to convert to a single big data frame.

I got some pointers from an earlier ques

Answer 1

An updated visual for those wanting to compare some of the recent answers (I wanted to compare the purrr to dplyr solution). Basically I combined answers from @TheVTM and @rmf.

Code:

library(microbenchmark)
library(data.table)
library(tidyverse)

dflist <- vector(length=10,mode="list")
for(i in 1:100)
{
  dflist[[i]] <- data.frame(a=runif(n=260),b=runif(n=260),
                            c=rep(LETTERS,10),d=rep(LETTERS,10))
}


mb <- microbenchmark(
  dplyr::bind_rows(dflist),
  data.table::rbindlist(dflist),
  purrr::map_df(dflist, bind_rows),
  do.call("rbind",dflist),
  times=500)

ggplot2::autoplot(mb)

Session Info:

sessionInfo()
R version 3.4.1 (2017-06-30)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1

Package Versions:

> packageVersion("tidyverse")
[1] ‘1.1.1’
> packageVersion("data.table")
[1] ‘1.10.0’