Hi Meredith, Why not just use paste()?
cuyahoga_nf$newcolumn <- paste(cuyahoga_nf[,1], cuyahoga_nf[,2], cuyahoga_nf[,3], ..... , cuyahoga_nf[,4]) Best, Steve Politzer_ahles ----- Original Message ----- > From: Meredith Ballard LaBeau <mmbal...@mtu.edu> > To: r-help@r-project.org > Cc: > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 5:51 PM > Subject: [R] Merging multiple columns into one column > > Good Evening- > I have a dataframe that has 10 columns that has a header and 7306 rows in > each column, I want to combine these columns into one. I utilized the stack > function but it only returned 3/4 of the data...my code is: > where nfcuy_bw is the dataframe with 7305 obs. and 10 variables > Once I apply this code I only receive a data frame with 58440 obs. of 2 > variables, of which there should be 73,050 obs. of 2 variables, just > wondering what is happening here? > > View(nfcuy_bw) > > attach(nfcuy_bw) > > cuyahoga_nf<-data.frame(s5,s10,s25,s27,s33,s41,s51,his_c) > > cuy_nf<-stack(cuyahoga_nf) > > Thanks > Meredith > > -- > Doctoral Candidate > Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering > Michigan Technological University > > ??? [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
