[R] extracting named vector from dataframe

[baptiste auguie]

Hi,

I think you want ?unlist

d = data.frame(x=1, y=2, z=3)
v = unlist(d)
is(v)
[1] "numeric" "vector"

HTH,

baptiste

On 31 October 2010 16:54, James Hirschorn <James.Hirschorn at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Suppose df is a dataframe with one named row of numeric observations. I want
> to coerce df into a named vector.
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> as.vector does not work as I expected: as.vector(df) returns the original
> dataframe, while as.vector(df,mode="numeric") returns an unnamed vector of
> NAs.
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> This works:
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>> v <- as.numeric(as.matrix(df)); names(v) <- names(df);
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> I just wanted check if there was a better/more natural way of doing this?
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