title: "Merge multiple data frames with multiMerge
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author: "Florian Detsch"
date: "2018-05-31"
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Merging multiple data frames in R is anything but straightforward and usually involves confusing loop structures. multiMerge
elegantly avoids such bewildering code chunks by invoking Reduce
upon a list of data frames. The function also features a set of auxiliary parameters that are passed on to merge
. Note that the code is mainly taken from a related blog post in StackOverflow.
## sample data
set.seed(10)
ls_df <- list(data.frame(a = 1:10, b = 1:10),
data.frame(a = 5:14, c = 11:20),
data.frame(a = sample(20, 10), d = runif(10)))
## merge data frames in one go
merge(ls_df, by = "a", all = TRUE)
## a b c d
## 1 1 1 NA NA
## 2 2 2 NA 0.35804998
## 3 3 3 NA NA
## 4 4 4 NA 0.42880942
## 5 5 5 11 0.83613414
## 6 6 6 12 0.56773775
## 7 7 7 13 NA
## 8 8 8 14 0.11350898
## 9 9 9 15 NA
## 10 10 10 16 NA
## 11 11 NA 17 0.65165567
## 12 12 NA 18 0.59592531
## 13 13 NA 19 NA
## 14 14 NA 20 0.26417767
## 15 15 NA NA 0.05190332
## 16 18 NA NA 0.39879073
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