[R] Comparing the components of a data frame without levels interfering

[swonder03]

*Bottom Line: How can I compare the individual components of two data frames
with different row lengths without the levels interfering?*

Example: I have two data frames to those respectively named 'dfCity' and
'dfState' that have the following output:

dfCity
 
     Name       City 
1    Bill        Detroit 
2    Jody      Chicago
3    Frank    Memphis 
4    Ron       Houston 

dfState

     Name       State
1    Bill        Michigan
2    Frank    Tennessee  

I have an if statement that is trying to compare the individual's names and
combine the data from the two different data frames to produce some output: 
 
for(j in 1:length(row.names(dfState))){
			for(k in 1:length(row.names(dfCity))){
				if(dfCity[k,1] == dfState[j,1]){
					cityState <- paste(dfCity[k,2], ", ", dfState[j,2], sep= "") 
					print(dfCity[1, j], " is from ", cityState)
				}
			}
		}

However, when I run it I get the error /Error in Ops.factor(dfState[2, 1],
dfCity[4, 1]) : level sets of factors are different/ due to the levels in
the data frames. *How can I compare the individual components of the data
frame without the levels interfering? *

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