I am trying to build a data.frame from some vectors and some matrices
and seem to be unable to find out how to do this without converting
everything to factors.
I can prevent conversion of the vectors by using I(), as explained in
help(data.frame). However, this doesn't help with the matrices: if I try
I() with the matrix, the matrix gets incorporated into the data frame as
a whole, rather than as a list of vectors as it should be. ("as.is=T"
doesn't help either, and neither does "options(stringsAsFactors =
FALSE)".)
I think we need the reproducible example we asked for. I get
> z <- matrix(letters[1:12], 4, 3)
> z2 <- data.frame(x=1:4, z=z, stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
> sapply(z2, class)
x z.1 z.2 z.3
"integer" "character" "character" "character"
so it is working as documented. (BTW, using I() on a matrix is intended
to insert a matrix as a single entity, and as.is is not an argument to
data.frame.)
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