Combine (rbind) data frames and create column with name of original data frames

Question

I have several data frames that I want to combine by row. In the resulting single data frame, I want to create a new variable identifying which data set the observation came

Answer 1

A blend of the other two answers:

df1 <- data.frame(x = 1:3,y = 1:3)
df2 <- data.frame(x = 4:6,y = 4:6)

> foo <- function(...){
    args <- list(...)
    result <- do.call(rbind,args)
    result$source <- rep(as.character(match.call()[-1]),times = sapply(args,nrow))
    result
 }

> foo(df1,df2,df1)
  x y source
1 1 1    df1
2 2 2    df1
3 3 3    df1
4 4 4    df2
5 5 5    df2
6 6 6    df2
7 1 1    df1
8 2 2    df1
9 3 3    df1

If you want to avoid the match.call business, you can always limit yourself to naming the function arguments (i.e. df1 = df1, df2 = df2) and using names(args) to access the names.