[R] matrix of 1,0's to a data.frame of factors

[Rajarshi Guha]

Hi, I have an integer matrix consisting of 1's and 0's and I would like
to convert this to a data.frame where each column of the matrix becomes
a factor variable.  

Now, some columns of the matrix have only 1's or only 0's as a result
there is only 1 level for those columns in the data.frame. However it is
required that each factor have 2 levels. So my solution is:

    m <- function_returning_a_matrix()

    n <- data.frame(  apply(m,2,as.character) )
    for (i in 1:ncol(n)) {
        levels(n[,i]) <- c(1,0)
    }


When m is 118 x 1024 the loop becomes very slow. So I then tried

    n <- data.frame(  apply(m,2,as.character) )
    apply(n,2,function(x) {levels(x) <- c(1,0)})

But this does not change the levels

Can anybody point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
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