On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Paul Miller <pjmiller...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Would like to be able to convert a matrix to a dataframe without losing an
> assigned dimname.
>
> Here is an example that should illustrate what I'm talking about.
>
> tableData <- state.x77[c(7, 38, 20, 46), c(7, 1, 8)]
> names(dimnames(tableData)) <- c("State", "")
> tableData
>
> State Frost Population Area
> Connecticut 139 3100 4862
> Pennsylvania 126 11860 44966
> Maryland 101 4122 9891
> Virginia 85 4981 39780
>
> tableData <- as.data.frame(tableData)
> tableData
>
> Frost Population Area
> Connecticut 139 3100 4862
> Pennsylvania 126 11860 44966
> Maryland 101 4122 9891
> Virginia 85 4981 39780
>
> Notice how "State" gets removed when converting to a dataframe. How can I get
> a dataframe with a separate column called "State" instead of having the state
> become the row.names? I can think of an ugly way to do it but suspect there
> must be something more elegant.
>
Try this:
> library(plyr)
> adply(tableData, 1, c)
State Frost Population Area
1 Connecticut 139 3100 4862
2 Pennsylvania 126 11860 44966
3 Maryland 101 4122 9891
4 Virginia 85 4981 39780
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