captest.io.DataLoader.join_files

DataLoader.join_files()

Combine the DataFrames of loaded_files into a single DataFrame.

Checks if the columns of each DataFrame in loaded_files matches. If they do all match, then they will be combined vertically along the index.

If they do not match, then they will be combined by creating a datetime index that begins with the earliest datetime in all the indices to the latest datetime in all the indices using the most common frequency across all the indices. The columns will be a set of all the columns.

Returns:

data – The combined data.

Return type:

DataFrame