merge_columns: Bind two or more data frames with different columns

In rmetaverse/synthesisr: Import, Assemble, and Deduplicate Bibliographic Datasets

Bind two or more data frames with different columns

Description

Takes two or more data.frames with different column names or different column orders and binds them to a single data.frame. This function is maintained for backwards compatibility, but it is synonymous with dplyr::bind_rows() and will be depracated in future.

Usage

merge_columns(x, y)

Arguments

x	Either a data.frame or a list of data.frames.
y	A data.frame, optional if x is a list.

Value

Returns a single data.frame with all the input data frames merged.

Examples

df_1 <-  data.frame(
  title = c(
    "EviAtlas: a tool for visualising evidence synthesis databases",
    "revtools: An R package to support article screening for evidence synthesis"
  ),
  year = c("2019", "2019")
)

df_2 <-  data.frame(
  title = c(
    "An automated approach to identifying search terms for systematic reviews",
    "Reproducible, flexible and high-throughput data extraction from primary literature"
  ),
  authors = c("Grames et al", "Pick et al")
)

merge_columns(df_1, df_2)

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