> On Sep 20, 2016, at 12:31 PM, Crombie, Burnette N <bcrom...@utk.edu> wrote:
>
> If a data.frame (r4) does not exist in my R environment, I would like to
> create it before I move on to the next step in my script. How do I make that
> happen? Here is what I want to do from a code perspective:
>
> if (exists(r4))
> {
> is.data.frame(get(r4))
> }
> else
> {
> a <- 0, b <- 0, c <- 0, d <- "x", r4 <- data.frame(cbind(a,b,c,d))
> }
>
> Thanks for your help,
> B
>
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Please, please, please, do not encourage people to use the construction:
data.frame(cbind(....
...and learn to distrust whatever misguided example you learned it from. (Yes,
I know there is one in the help pages but that is an exception to the rule.)
There is no reason to use it. It would be much clearer to do this:
r4 <- data.frame(a = 0, b = 0, c = 0, d = "x") # only one column is
factor-class.
If you did it your way you would have gotten four columns of factors, (first
cbind() creates a character matrix, and then data.frame() creates factors) ...
which does not appear to be what you expected.
And ... as always has been the case on Rhelp, ... learn to post in plain text.
>
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