[R] I want my row name to be a variable

[stephen sefick]

#if this doesn't work then swap the rownames... = ...  to  ...=rownames...
a <- data.frame(your.df, rownames(your.df)=Var3)

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 5:34 PM, CE.KA <ce.kaya75 at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi R users
>
> Imagine this data.frame:
>>X
>
>    Var1    Var2
> A   22       13
> B    5         2
> C    12       8
> D    1        99
>
> A,B,C,D are the rows names (or index)
>
> Is there a way to create a new variable in this data frame
> which name is Var3 and which contains the rows names:
>
>    Var1    Var2    Var3
> A   22       13        A
> B    5         2         B
> C    12       8         C
> D    1        99        D
>
> I tried as.data.frame(array(x, dim(x), dimnames(x)))
> but it doesn'work
>
> Sincerely yours
>
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