cbind a dataframe with an empty dataframe - cbind.fill?

Question

I think I\'m looking for an analog of rbind.fill (in Hadley\'s plyr package) for cbind. I looked, but there is no cbind.fill

Answer 1

While, I think Tyler's solution is direct and the best here, I just provide the other way, using rbind.fill() that we already have.

require(plyr) # requires plyr for rbind.fill()
cbind.fill <- function(...) {                                                                                                                                                       
  transpoted <- lapply(list(...),t)                                                                                                                                                 
  transpoted_dataframe <- lapply(transpoted, as.data.frame)                                                                                                                         
  return (data.frame(t(rbind.fill(transpoted_dataframe))))                                                                                                                          
}