Dinoop Nair
Dinoop Nair

Reputation: 2773

combine 2 dataframes having different column names

In R ,I have 2 data frames both having different column name. I want to combine the rows of each data frame according to the column number. the dataframes i have is as follows

> d1
  X.0.52..V2 X.0.52..V4
1        ABT        700
2        AMD       9600
3        AMG        600
4       AGCO        800

> d2
  X.52.96..V2 X.52.96..V4
1        COMS      162193
2         MMM      419645
3          SE      146343
4        ADCT       62609
5         TCC        6623

I want the following dataframe:

 >d3

       ticker        value
 1        ABT         700
 2        AMD        9600
 3        AMG         600
 4       AGCO         800
 5       COMS      162193
 6        MMM      419645
 7         SE      146343
 8       ADCT       62609
 9        TCC        6623

what is the code i need to use?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2347

Answers (2)

Tyler Rinker
Tyler Rinker

Reputation: 110024

If it's this simple I'd be inclined to use:

colnames(d1) <- colnames(d2) <- c("ticker", "value")
rbind.data.frame(d1, d2)

Upvotes: 8

alexwhan
alexwhan

Reputation: 16046

If your actual situation is as simple as this, you can easily match the names from the two:

names(df2) <- names(df1)

Then rbind them together:

df.both <- rbind(df1, df2)

and give the dataframe the names you want:

names(df.both) <- c("ticker", "value")

# > df.both
# ticker  value
# 1     ABT    700
# 2     AMD   9600
# 3     AMG    600
# 4    AGCO    800
# 11   COMS 162193
# 21    MMM 419645
# 31     SE 146343
# 41   ADCT  62609
# 5     TCC   6623

Upvotes: 4

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