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safe_bind_rows

Stack data frames which may have differing types in the same column

Description

This function accepts a list of data frames and will stack them all and return a tbl_df with missing values filled in and all columns stacked regardless of if the datatypes were different within the same column.

Usage

safe_bind_rows(l, fill = TRUE, idcol = NULL, ...)

Arguments

`l`	`list`; A list containing data frames or lists that can be coerced to data frames.
`fill`	`logical`; `TRUE` fills missing columns with NA (default `TRUE`). When `TRUE`, use.names is set to `TRUE`.
`idcol`	`character`; Creates a column in the result showing which list item those rows came from. TRUE names this column ".id". idcol="file" names this column "file".
`...`	arguments passed to `rbindlist`

Value

tbl_df; all list elements stacked on top of each other to form a single data frame

Note

This function is meant to be used internally. Only use when debugging.

salesforcer

An Implementation of 'Salesforce' APIs Using Tidy Principles

v0.2.2

MIT + file LICENSE

Authors

Steven M. Mortimer [aut, cre], Takekatsu Hiramura [ctb], Jennifer Bryan [ctb, cph], Joanna Zhao [ctb, cph]

Initial release

2020-09-07