What are you expecting?
dog <- 1:3
cat <- 2:4
tree <- 5:7
big.char <- c("dog","cat","tree")
xx <- cbind(dog, cat, tree, big.char)
gives me
xx1 <- structure(c("1", "2", "3", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "dog",
"cat", "tree"), .Dim = 3:4, .Dimnames = list(NULL, c("dog", "cat",
"tree", "big.char")))
John Kane
Kingston ON Canada
> -----Original Message-----
> From: erinm.hodg...@gmail.com
> Sent: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:41:05 -0400
> To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] cbind question, please
>
> Hello!
>
> I have a cbind type question, please: Suppose I have the following:
>
> dog <- 1:3
> cat <- 2:4
> tree <- 5:7
>
> and a character vector
> big.char <- c("dog","cat","tree")
>
> I want to end up with a matrix that is a "cbind" of dog, cat, and tree.
> This is a toy example. There will be a bunch of variables.
>
> I experimented with "do.call", but all I got was
> 1
> 2
> 3
>
> Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I still think that do.call
> might be the key, but I'm not sure.
>
> R Version 3-1.3, Windows 7.
>
> Thanks,
> Erin
>
>
> --
> Erin Hodgess
> Associate Professor
> Department of Mathematical and Statistics
> University of Houston - Downtown
> mailto: erinm.hodg...@gmail.com
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