> I would like to add a column to the airquality dataset that contains the date
> 1950-01-01 in each row. This method does not appear to work:
>
> > attach(airquality)
> > data1 <- transform(airquality,Date=as.Date("1950-01-01"))
>
> Error in data.frame(list(Ozone = c(41L, 36L, 12L, 18L, NA, 28L, 23L, 19L, :
> arguments imply differing number of rows: 153, 1
>
> I can't decipher what the error message is trying to tell me. Any
> suggestions on how to do this?
You already got an answer solving your problem using transform
and rep. I would like to add that the automatic recycling would
have worked in this case:
airquality$Date <- as.Date('1950-01-01')
cu
Philipp
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