You can't do that. You can either make a different data frame, or you can stack 
the data in additional rows. If you make your example reproducible, we may be 
able to give more specific help. 

Also,  post in plain text to avoid HTML code corruption. 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example

http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Reproducibility.html
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On December 12, 2016 3:41:01 PM PST, Bailey Hewitt <bails...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Dear R Help,
>
>
>I am trying to put together two columns of unequal length in a data
>frame. Unfortunately, so far I have been unsuccessful in the functions
>I have tried (such as cbind). The code I am currently using is : (I
>have highlighted the code that is not working)
>
>
>y<- mydata[,2:75]
>
>year <- mydata$Year
>
>res <- data.frame()
>
>for (i in 1:74){
>
>  y.val <- y[,i]
>
>  lake.lm= lm(y.val ~ year)
>
>  lake.res=residuals(lake.lm)
>
>  new.res <- data.frame(lake.res=lake.res)
>
>  colnames(new.res) <- colnames(y)[i]
>
>#cbind doesn't work because of the unequal lengths of my data columns
>
>  res <- cbind(res, new.res)
>
>  print(res)
>
>}
>
>
>mydata is a csv file with "Year" from 1950 on as my first column and
>then each proceeding column has a lake name and a day of year (single
>number) in each row.
>
>
>Please let me know if there is any more information I can provide as I
>am new to emailing in this list. Thank you for your time!
>
>
>Bailey Hewitt
>
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>
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