merge_columns {synthesisr}

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.

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)