Hi. I wanted to add two new columns to a data frame, and ended up crashing R > temp <- data.frame(a=1:3, b=4:6) > temp[[c("d","e")]] <- NA Process R trace trap at Mon Jun 23 16:32:36 2003 I know the above code isn't very elegent, but it shouldn't crash R. I managed to add the new columns doing > temp[,c("d","e")] <- NA 'day patrick