hi: I searched the last 2 hours for a way to enter a data frame directly in my program. (I know how to read from a file.) that is, I would like to say something like
d <- this.is.a.data.frame( c("obs1name", 0.2, 0.3),
c("obs2name", 0.4, 1.0),
c("obs3name", 0.6, 2.0) , varnames=c("name", "val1", "val2") );
everything I have tried sofar (usually, building with rbind and then names(d)) has come out with factors for the numbers, which is obviously not what I want. this must be a pretty elementary request, so it should probably be an example under data.frame (or read.table). of course, it is probably somewhere---just I have do not remember it and could not find it after 2 hours of searching. I also tried the r-help archives---at the very least, I hope we will get the answer there for future lookups.
regards, /iaw
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