data_rep: Duplicate a data rows or columns X times

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Duplicate a data rows or columns X times

Description

Add a data to itself X times by rows or columns

Usage

data_rep(., n, which = c("rows", "cols"))

Arguments

.	data frame variable
n	multiples of duplicate
which	where to append the duplicated data e.g. rows or cols

Value

the duplicated dataset store to a variable with the name of the first

Examples

# initialize p1 and p2
init(p1,p2)
p1
p2

# declare p1 and p2 as data frame
p1 <- data.frame(PK=1:10,ID2=1:10)
p2 <- data.frame(PK=11:20,ID2=21:30)

p1
p2

#add p1  twice by row, and resave as p1
data_rep(p1,n=2,"rows")
p1 #p1 has been updated


#add p2  3 times by col, and resave as p2
data_rep(p2,n=3,"cols")
p2 #p2 has been updated

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