Pandas version of rbind

Question

In R, you can combine two dataframes by sticking the columns of one onto the bottom of the columns of the other using rbind. In pandas, how do you accomplish the same thing? It

Answer 1

This worked for me:

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

dates = np.asarray(pd.date_range('1/1/2000', periods=8))
df1 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(8, 4), index=dates, columns=['A', 'B', 'C', 'D'])
df2 = df1.copy()
df = df1.append(df2)

Yields:

                   A         B         C         D
2000-01-01 -0.327208  0.552500  0.862529  0.493109
2000-01-02  1.039844 -2.141089 -0.781609  1.307600
2000-01-03 -0.462831  0.066505 -1.698346  1.123174
2000-01-04 -0.321971 -0.544599 -0.486099 -0.283791
2000-01-05  0.693749  0.544329 -1.606851  0.527733
2000-01-06 -2.461177 -0.339378 -0.236275  0.155569
2000-01-07 -0.597156  0.904511  0.369865  0.862504
2000-01-08 -0.958300 -0.583621 -2.068273  0.539434
2000-01-01 -0.327208  0.552500  0.862529  0.493109
2000-01-02  1.039844 -2.141089 -0.781609  1.307600
2000-01-03 -0.462831  0.066505 -1.698346  1.123174
2000-01-04 -0.321971 -0.544599 -0.486099 -0.283791
2000-01-05  0.693749  0.544329 -1.606851  0.527733
2000-01-06 -2.461177 -0.339378 -0.236275  0.155569
2000-01-07 -0.597156  0.904511  0.369865  0.862504
2000-01-08 -0.958300 -0.583621 -2.068273  0.539434

If you don't already use the latest version of pandas I highly recommend upgrading. It is now possible to operate with DataFrames which contain duplicate indices.