On 4/16/2007 8:19 PM, jiho.han wrote:
> Dear R-experts,
>
> This should be a simple question, but I couldn't find a way yet.
> I would like to create a function that accepts a vector, creates a
> data.frame whose colname is that vector. For example, I want a function
> temp.func() such that:
>
>> name = c( "mike", "john", "steve")
>> result = temp.func(name)
>> result
> name
> 1 mike
> 2 john
> 3 steve
>
> Right now I have the following code:
>
> temp.func = function (x) {
> x = as.data.frame(x)
> return(x)
> }
>
> The problem is, the above function returns the colname, "factor(x)," which
> is not "name." Anyone has Any idea?
This should work:
temp.func <- function(x) {
result <- data.frame(x)
names(result) <- deparse(substitute(x))
return(result)
}
Duncan Murdoch
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