Without a reproducible example it's impossible to say for certain, but I'd try cbind.data.frame() instead of cbind().
You need to have a data frame, not a matrix, for the result. Sarah On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Jose Bustos Melo <jbustosm...@yahoo.es> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I want make a variable selection from a dataframe, but when I build this new > object (using cbind) the new table (which is a matrix) I lost all the > original factor names in the variables. I get 1,2,3.... > > Someone would be so kind and tell me if there's is a ny way to get variables > in a dataframe, but not changing these factor to numbers? > > Thank you all. > José -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.