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 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.