Most of the base R answers address the situation where only one data.frame has additional columns or that the resulting data.frame would have the intersection of the columns. Since the OP writes I am hoping to retain the columns that do not match after the bind, an answer using base R methods to address this issue is probably worth posting. More @Wikipedia
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