R Under development (unstable) (2023-11-19 r85561 ucrt) -- "Unsuffered Consequences" Copyright (C) 2023 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. R is a collaborative project with many contributors. Type 'contributors()' for more information and 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help. Type 'q()' to quit R. > library(gtools) > > df1 <- data.frame(a = 1, b = 2, d = TRUE) > df2 <- data.frame(b = 7, c = "YES", d = FALSE) > df3 <- data.frame(b = 7, c = "YES") > > smartbind(df1, df2, df3) a b d c 1 1 2 TRUE 2 NA 7 FALSE YES 3 NA 7 NA YES > smartbind(df1 = df1, df2, df3 = df3) a b d c df1 1 2 TRUE 2 NA 7 FALSE YES df3 NA 7 NA YES > > proc.time() user system elapsed 0.21 0.06 0.26