[R] Applying rbind() to a sequence of data frame names

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

Try this:

do.call(rbind, lapply(ls(patt="^ds[0-9]"), get))

On 01/04/2008, Hans W. Borchers <hwborchers at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a set of data frames ds1, ds2, ... each having the same columns
>  and column names:
>
>   ds1 <- data.frame(x=c(1,2,3,4), y=c(5,6,7,8))
>   ds1 <- data.frame(x=c(9,10,11,12), y=c(13,14,15,16))
>   ...
>
>  and I would like to combine them into just one data frame like
>
>   ds <- rbind(ds1, ds2, ...)
>
>  Because there are so many of them, I will have to use a character array
>
>   nms <- c("ds1", "ds2", ...)
>
>  How can I use this character array to generate a command using rbind()
>  on all of these data frames at once.
>
>  I tried to apply eval() somehow, but did not come up with the right idea.
>
>  Thanks
>
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