R - Using rbind with list of data frames and a subset of columns

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How can I rbind a list of data frames using only specific columns? Something like do.call(rbind, data) works fine, but I dont't know how to exclude a vector of specific columns. Dropping unnecessary columns afterwards seems is ok, but maybe there is a cleaner way to do this?

Do you want to merge or rbind? You need to get your definitions straight. — David Arenburg
– David Arenburg, Commented Feb 3, 2016 at 12:35

Matthias Preu · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-03 13:29:41Z

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I can simply use subset (thanks to @Jaap):

do.call(rbind, lapply(data, subset, select=c("use_this", "and_this")))

answered Feb 3, 2016 at 13:29

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