rbind

• Usage
• Example

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Usage

Used to combine two dataframes vertically into a new dataframe. This procedure is also sometimes known as appending two dataframes.

Usage:

some_dataframe_name <- rbind(dataframe1, dataframe2)

• The first and second inputs must both be dataframes.
• The output is a dataframe that combines the two input dataframes “vertically”.
• The input dataframes should contain the same variable/column names.

If you store the output in an object with the same name as one of the input dataframes, you will overwrite it. (e.g. df <- rbind(df, another_df)) This causes data loss, so you should avoid doing this!

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Example

rm(list=ls())

df_2014 <- read.csv("IPUMS_ACS2014_CA_1.csv")
df_2019 <- read.csv("IPUMS_ACS2019_CA_1.csv")

df <- rbind(df_2014, df_2019)