It is a data.frame. They are represented by lists. df <- data.frame(a=1:2, b=letters[1:2]); > str(df) 'data.frame': 2 obs. of 2 variables: $ a: int 1 2 $ b: Factor w/ 2 levels "a","b": 1 2 > class(df); [1] "data.frame" > mode(df); [1] "list" > typeof(df); [1] "list"
For details, see code, e.g. page(data.frame). /Henrik On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Farley, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I obviously don't know what I'm doing. I want to create "ByEBNum" as a > data frame, but it comes out as a list. How do I make it a data frame? > > > > > >> EBNumStn <- c(673.65, 800, 1000, 1000, 800, 700, 600, 500, 400, > 200, 50, 50 ) > >> ByEBNum <- data.frame(c(1:12),EBNumStn) > >> typeof(EBNumStn) > > [1] "double" > >> typeof(c(1:12)) > > [1] "integer" > >> typeof(ByEBNum) > > [1] "list" > >> ByEBNum > > c.1.12. EBNumStn > > 1 1 673.65 > > 2 2 800.00 > > 3 3 1000.00 > > 4 4 1000.00 > > 5 5 800.00 > > 6 6 700.00 > > 7 7 600.00 > > 8 8 500.00 > > 9 9 400.00 > > 10 10 200.00 > > 11 11 50.00 > > 12 12 50.00 > >> > > > >>sessionInfo() > > R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23) > > i386-pc-mingw32 > > > > locale: > > LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United > States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United > States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 > > > > attached base packages: > > [1] graphics grDevices utils datasets stats methods base > > > > > other attached packages: > > [1] survey_3.8 fortunes_1.3-5 moonsun_0.1 prettyR_1.3-2 > foreign_0.8-28 > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > Robert Farley > > Metro > > 1 Gateway Plaza > > Mail Stop 99-23-7 > > Los Angeles, CA 90012-2952 > > Voice: (213)922-2532 > > Fax: (213)922-2868 > > www.Metro.net > > > > > > > [[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.
