[R] Variables from a Dataframe

Sarah Goslee sarah.goslee at gmail.com
Mon Dec 12 20:50:29 CET 2011


Without a reproducible example it's impossible to say for certain,
but I'd try
cbind.data.frame() instead of cbind().

You need to have a data frame, not a matrix, for the result.

Sarah

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Jose Bustos Melo <jbustosmelo at yahoo.es> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I want make a variable selection  from a dataframe, but when I build this new object (using cbind) the new table (which is a matrix) I lost all the original factor names in the variables. I get 1,2,3....
>
> Someone would be so kind and tell me if there's is a ny way to get variables in a dataframe, but not changing these factor to numbers?
>
> Thank you all.
> José

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