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

Another workaround for this one is using ldply in the plyr package...

df1 <- data.frame(x = c(1,3), y = c(2,4))
df2 <- data.frame(x = c(5,7), y = c(6,8))
list = list(df1 = df1, df2 = df2)
df3 <- ldply(list)

df3
  .id x y
  df1 1 2
  df1 3 4
  df2 5 6
  df2 7 8