Dear list members,

I am using function cbind but I got 2 different results, one is a data
frame and the other is a matrix and I would like to undertand why is the
reason:

I have a data frame called "finaldf"

> names(finaldf)
 [1] "especie" "estrato" "oc1"     "oc2"     "oc3"     "oc4"     "oc5"
"oc6"
 [9] "oc7"     "oc8"     "oc9"     "oc10"    "oc11"    "oc12"    "oc13"
 "oc14"
[17] "oc15"    "oc16"    "oc17"    "oc18"    "oc19"    "oc20"

I tried (gave me  a data frame):

DET <- cbind(finaldf[, 3:22])

> head(DET)
   oc1 oc2 oc3 oc4 oc5 oc6 oc7 oc8 oc9 oc10 oc11 oc12 oc13 oc14 oc15 oc16
oc17 oc18
1    0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1    0    0    0    0    0    0    0
 0    0
27   0   0   0   1   0   0   0   0   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    1
 0    0
53   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0
 0    0
2    1   1   1   1   1   1   0   1   1    1    1    1    0    1    0    1
 1    1
28   1   0   1   0   1   1   1   1   1    1    1    1    0    1    1    1
 1    0
54   1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1   0    0    0    1    1    0    1    0
 0    0
   oc19 oc20
1     0    0
27    1    0
53    0    0
2     1    1
28    1    0
54    0    1

and gave me a different results when I tried (gave me a matrix):

DET <-  cbind(finaldf$oc1, finaldf$oc2, finaldf$oc3, finaldf$oc4,
finaldf$oc5, finaldf$oc6, finaldf$oc7, finaldf$oc8, finaldf$oc9,
finaldf$oc10, finaldf$oc11, finaldf$oc12, finaldf$oc13, finaldf$oc14,
finaldf$oc15, finaldf$oc16, finaldf$oc17, finaldf$oc18, finaldf$oc19,
finaldf$oc20)

> head(DET)
     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [,9] [,10] [,11] [,12] [,13]
[,14]
[1,]    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    1     0     0     0     0
  0
[2,]    0    0    0    1    0    0    0    0    0     0     0     0     0
  0
[3,]    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0     0     0     0     0
  0
[4,]    1    1    1    1    1    1    0    1    1     1     1     1     0
  1
[5,]    1    0    1    0    1    1    1    1    1     1     1     1     0
  1
[6,]    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    0     0     0     1     1
  0
     [,15] [,16] [,17] [,18] [,19] [,20]
[1,]     0     0     0     0     0     0
[2,]     0     1     0     0     1     0
[3,]     0     0     0     0     0     0
[4,]     0     1     1     1     1     1
[5,]     1     1     1     0     1     0
[6,]     1     0     0     0     0     1

Best,

Manuel


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