Hi, In your original message, you were trying to copy the colnames of df1. I am not sure that is what you wanted. Also, there were some spaces between the columns, which I had to delete.
This is how your dataset looks like now: dat1<-read.csv("dataSahana1.csv",sep="\t",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE) str(dat1) #'data.frame': 4625 obs. of 21 variables: # $ GENE: chr "amt:Amet_0001" "amt:Amet_0002" "amt:Amet_0003" "amt:Amet_0004" ... # $ A : int 29 19 1 13 7 42 44 4 6 13 ... # $ C : int 0 3 0 0 1 2 2 1 3 1 ... # $ D : int 23 15 4 18 2 30 60 5 13 16 ... # $ E : int 34 42 6 29 9 65 77 12 11 30 ... # $ F : int 17 12 1 10 5 19 16 4 5 12 ... # $ G : int 16 18 9 22 4 59 58 7 10 7 ... # $ H : int 12 8 0 8 4 11 17 0 1 4 ... # $ I : int 42 35 9 32 12 53 88 14 20 21 ... # $ K : int 29 25 10 38 11 44 71 13 16 28 ... # $ L : int 39 43 9 50 8 51 75 13 6 24 ... # $ M : int 6 7 1 6 1 16 27 3 5 12 ... # $ N : int 35 26 3 26 2 27 40 5 9 19 ... # $ P : int 20 13 1 8 4 16 22 1 4 4 ... # $ Q : int 13 9 3 21 2 24 21 4 1 10 ... # $ R : int 25 14 2 19 4 36 49 2 2 17 ... # $ S : int 34 21 1 12 9 28 37 4 7 14 ... # $ T : int 27 20 0 12 4 41 43 5 10 11 ... # $ V : int 32 30 8 28 4 42 60 5 10 13 ... # $ W : int 3 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 ... # $ Y : int 12 8 1 15 2 28 23 2 2 9 ... dat1[1:3,] # GENE A C D E F G H I K L M N P Q R S T V W Y #1 amt:Amet_0001 29 0 23 34 17 16 12 42 29 39 6 35 20 13 25 34 27 32 3 12 #2 amt:Amet_0002 19 3 15 42 12 18 8 35 25 43 7 26 13 9 14 21 20 30 0 8 #3 amt:Amet_0003 1 0 4 6 1 9 0 9 10 9 1 3 1 3 2 1 0 8 0 1 dat2<- data.frame(matrix(NA,ncol=20,nrow=5)) dat2[1,]<-dat1[1,-1] dat2[1,] # X1 X2 X3 X4 X5 X6 X7 X8 X9 X10 X11 X12 X13 X14 X15 X16 X17 X18 X19 X20 #1 29 0 23 34 17 16 12 42 29 39 6 35 20 13 25 34 27 32 3 12 #If you wanted the colnames of dat1 dat2[1,]<- colnames(dat1)[-1] dat2[1,] # X1 X2 X3 X4 X5 X6 X7 X8 X9 X10 X11 X12 X13 X14 X15 X16 X17 X18 X19 X20 #1 A C D E F G H I K L M N P Q R S T V W Y A.K. ________________________________ From: Sahana Srinivasan <sahanasrinivasan...@gmail.com> To: arun <smartpink...@yahoo.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 8:42 AM Subject: Re: [R] Copying rows in data frames This is the file I am reading in. The dput() command keeps getting truncated, and I thought it might be easier to go straight to the bottom of this. Sorry about being so unwieldy, R is new to m and a lot more confusing than I thought. On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:37 PM, arun <smartpink...@yahoo.com> wrote: Could you subset your whole dataset to 10 rows and 10 columns etc.... >dput(df2[1:10,1:10]) > > > > > > > >________________________________ >From: Sahana Srinivasan <sahanasrinivasan...@gmail.com> >To: arun <smartpink...@yahoo.com> >Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 8:32 AM > >Subject: Re: [R] Copying rows in data frames > > > >The whole thing does not show when I print it on the console. It's essentially >"amt : Amet_0001" till 4802. > ______________________________________________ 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.