Re: [R] assign column classes when creating a data frame from several vectors

By doing "cbind(ID,TREAT,T1,T2)" you are coercing everything to character and therefore factors in the dataframe. Why didn't you just say: data<-data.frame(ID,TREAT,T1,T2) On Jan 29, 2008 9:02 PM, kamokoi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > R-helpers, > > Thanks in advance for your help. I am an R

[R] assign column classes when creating a data frame from several vectors

R-helpers, Thanks in advance for your help. I am an R newbie and I am having trouble figuring out the easiest/most efficient way to assign classes to columns in a newly created data frame. R seems to want to convert everything to a factor when I use the cbind function to compile vectors into a