Combining different number of rows files

shiny
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Hi,

Can anyone recommend hoe to combine files with different number of rows and columns? rbind and cbind don't work.

Thanks

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dplyr::bind_rows and dplyr::bind_cols, depending on how you want to do it. I like those functions much more than rbind and cbind. Give them a shot!

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Awesome. Thanks, dplyr should be installed as install.packages("dplyr") and the library imported as library(dplyr)?

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Once you install dplyr, you can use function in a qualified manner exactly as @cole demonstrated: dplyr::bind_rows and/or dplyr::bind_cols. In that case you don't need to add library(dplyr) to your script.
If you do add it, then you can use it without a qualifier (bind_rows/bind_cols), but I would say that first variant is better as it makes it abundantly clear where functions are coming from.

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Thank you for your response.