Hi, set.seed(25) df1<- as.data.frame(matrix(sample(LETTERS[1:10],20,replace=TRUE),ncol=5),stringsAsFactors=FALSE) df1 # V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 #1 E B A J F #2 G J C F H #3 B G D G E #4 I D D B H str(df1) #'data.frame': 4 obs. of 5 variables: # $ V1: chr "E" "G" "B" "I" # $ V2: chr "B" "J" "G" "D" # $ V3: chr "A" "C" "D" "D" # $ V4: chr "J" "F" "G" "B" # $ V5: chr "F" "H" "E" "H"
df2<-as.data.frame(matrix(NA,ncol=5,nrow=3)) df2[1,]<-df1[1,] df2[1,] # V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 #1 E B A J F A.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: Sahana Srinivasan <sahanasrinivasan...@gmail.com> To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 7:55 AM Subject: [R] Copying rows in data frames Hi, I'm trying to copy the first row of one data frame to another. This is the statement I am using : df2[1,]<-df1[1,]; I have printed them out separately: df1[1,] = A C D E F But after copying: df2[1,] = 96 29 88 122 68 Why isn't it copying? They are both data frames, and "as.character" isn't working either. Thanks for your input :) [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.
