Hi Sarah, str(W_table) gives me:
> str(W_table) 'data.frame': 11 obs. of 3 variables: $ pds_gagehandles.i.: Factor w/ 1 level "mibe": 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ... $ p : chr "1" "2" "3" "4" ... $ W : chr "746" "870.5" "767" "1066" ... here is the script I am using, with the lines that create W and the W_table bolded: for(i in 1:length(pds_gagehandles)){ POTWY<-get(paste(pds_gagehandles[i],"_POTWY",sep="")) num_wyrs<-length(POTWY) pre70wyrs_ind<-1:(length(POTWY)-39) post70wyrs_ind<-(length(POTWY)-38):length(POTWY) for(p in 1:11){ if(p==1){ pre70_POTWY<-POTWY[pre70wyrs_ind] post70_POTWY<-POTWY[post70wyrs_ind] original_stats<-wilcox.test(pre70_POTWY,post70_POTWY) W<-original_stats$statistic W_table<-data.frame(pds_gagehandles[i],p,W) W_table_name<-paste(pds_gagehandles[i],"_W_table",sep="") }else{ sample_POTWY<-sample(POTWY) sample_pre70_POTWY<-sample_POTWY[pre70wyrs_ind] sample_post70_POTWY<-sample_POTWY[post70wyrs_ind] sample_stats<-wilcox.test(sample_pre70_POTWY,sample_post70_POTWY) sample_W<-sample_stats$statistic sample_info<-c(pds_gagehandles[i],p,sample_W) W_table<-rbind(W_table,sample_info) if(p==1001){ assign(W_table_name,W_table) write.table(W_table,col.names=c('gage_handle','iteration','W'),file=paste(W_table_name,".txt",sep=""),sep="\t",row.names=FALSE) } } } } Thank you very much for your help. Billy -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Sorting-a-data-frame-with-values-of-different-lengths-tp3579653p3579680.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.