Append - Cghlewis/data-wrangling-functions GitHub Wiki
There are many use cases for appending/stacking data. Some examples include:
- Combining similar data across cohorts
- Combining similar data collected from different sites or links
- Combining similar data collected across time
The examples in this page use dplyr::bind_rows(). Using this function, columns are matched by variable names. Therefore, it is imperative that variables are named and formatted identically across datasets (e.g., same variable types).
Append data
- Append data (This link will take you to examples in an external blog post)
Main functions used in examples
| Package | Functions |
|---|---|
| dplyr | bind_rows() |
Other functions used in examples
| Package | Functions |
|---|---|
| janitor | compare_df() |
| dplyr | mutate(); relocate() |
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