R: Combine R objects by rows and columns

cbind {mice} | R Documentation

## Combine R objects by rows and columns

### Description

Functions `cbind()` and `rbind()` are defined in the `mice` package in order to enable dispatch to `cbind.mids()` and `rbind.mids()` when one of the arguments is a `data.frame`.

### Usage

    cbind(...)

    rbind(...)

### Arguments

`...` | (generalized) vectors or matrices. These can be given as named arguments. Other R objects may be coerced as appropriate, or S4 methods may be used: see sections ‘Details’ and ‘Value’. (For the `"data.frame"` method of `cbind` these can be further arguments to `data.frame` such as `stringsAsFactors`.)

### Details

The standard `base::cbind()` and `base::rbind()` always dispatch to `base::cbind.data.frame()` or `base::rbind.data.frame()` if one of the arguments is a `data.frame`. The versions defined in the `mice` package intercept the user command and test whether the first argument has class `"mids"`. If so, function calls `cbind.mids()`, respectively `rbind.mids()`. In all other cases, the call is forwarded to standard functions in the `base` package.

### See Also

`cbind`, `rbind`, `cbind.mids`, `rbind.mids`

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