Hi, Duncan Murdoch suggested:
> The matrix() function has a dimnames argument, so you could do this: > > names <- c("strat", "id", "pid") > data.frame(matrix(NA, nrow=10, ncol=3, dimnames=list(NULL, names))) That's a definite improvement, thanks. But no way to skip matrix()? It just seems unRlike, although since it's only full of NA values there are no coercion issues with column types or anything, so it doesn't hurt. It's just inelegant. :) Sarah -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.