add one column below another in a data.frame in R

Question

Not sure if I used the correct english words in the subject to describe what I need.

See this example

df <- data.frame(a=sample(1:10), b=sample(1:10))
df
    a  b
1   2  9
2   5  8
3  10  1
4   3  7
5   8  4
6   6 10
7   9  5
8   7  6
9   1  3
10  4  2

I want to take b column at put it below a as 10 new rows.

    a
1   2
2   5
3  10
4   3
5   8
6   6
7   9
8   7
9   1
10  4
11  9
12  8
13  1
14  7
15  4
16 10
17  5
18  6
19  3
20  2

I found examples with rbind but couldn't find out how to use it in my situation.

Answer 1

You could also do :

df2 <- data.frame(a = c(df[,"a"], df[,"b"]))

Answer 2

You can use pivot_longer() from tidyr package.

library(dplyr)
set.seed(1)
df <- data.frame(a=sample(1:10), b=sample(1:10))
pivot_longer(df, a:b)


# A tibble: 20 x 2
   name  value
   <chr> <int>
 1 a         3
 2 b         3
 3 a         4
 4 b         2
 5 a         5
 6 b         6
 7 a         7
 8 b        10
 9 a         2
10 b         5
11 a         8
12 b         7
13 a         9
14 b         8
15 a         6
16 b         4
17 a        10
18 b         1
19 a         1
20 b         9