[R] Dataframes - Integer and decimal in same column?

[Jeff Newmiller]

It is a very fundamental fact about data frames that they are COLUMNS of like data. If you have specific row-oriented requirements then you will need to build a data frame or matrix of character strings of formatted data. 
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On November 6, 2015 1:26:21 PM PST, Deepthi Theresa <deepthitheresa at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>My question is about R dataframes. I am making html reports using R
>datframe tables and RMarkdown.
>
>I have a dataframe with integer values on it and I had to rbind another
>dataframe with decimal values with the first dataframe.
>
>After the rbind function all values changed to decimal values.  Can we
>keep
>integer and decimal numbers in the same column?  Or at least round some
>of
>the decimal rows to zero decimal point.  anything works.  I just want
>to
>show the integer rows as integer values and decimal rows as decimal
>values.
>
>Thanks,
>Deepthi
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>Deepthi Theresa Thomas Kannanayakal
>Email: deepthitheresa at gmail.com
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