> -----Original Message-----
> From: X.H Chen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 12:16 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [R] Data frames questions
>
>
> >1) Is there a way to build an empty data frame, containing
> nothing but
> >the data frame variable names?
>
> Yes, you can do it one way as followings:
>
> df1<-as.data.frame(matrix(nrow=2,ncol=2),row.names=c("R1","R2"))
This results in a dataframe with two rows and two columns NA in it.
In order to build an empty dataframe one you could use:
df1 <- data.frame( X1=1, x2=3, l1=TRUE, d3=as.Date("2003-07-14")
)[NULL,]
str( df1 )
The key is the "NULL" for the rows, it removes the data but keeps the
content.
Best,
Bendix
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