issues: 83743818

This data as json

id node_id number title user state locked assignee milestone comments created_at updated_at closed_at author_association active_lock_reason draft pull_request body reactions performed_via_github_app state_reason repo type
83743818 MDU6SXNzdWU4Mzc0MzgxOA== 417 Make merge a function as well as a method 1217238 closed 0     1 2015-06-01T23:31:01Z 2016-07-28T02:40:33Z 2016-07-28T02:40:33Z MEMBER      

Roughly speaking, this should look like:

``` python from functools import reduce

def merge(datasets, kwargs): return reduce(lambda x, y: x.merge(y, kwargs), datasets) ```

We use already use this in auto_combine.

Including it would make for a better user experience that requiring users to write it themselves.

 
{
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/417/reactions",
    "total_count": 1,
    "+1": 1,
    "-1": 0,
    "laugh": 0,
    "hooray": 0,
    "confused": 0,
    "heart": 0,
    "rocket": 0,
    "eyes": 0
}
   completed 13221727 issue

Links from other tables