[R] Getting unexpected extra rows (continued)

[Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA)]

This is pretty basic stuff which suggests you need to (re)read the intro to R that comes with your R installation.  One approach would be :

xFrame <- data.frame(x=x, Transits=NA)


hope this is helpful,

Dan

Daniel Nordlund, PhD
Research and Data Analysis Division
Services & Enterprise Support Administration
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services


> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Paul
> Bernal
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 2:31 PM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Getting unexpected extra rows (continued)
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> So I have  created a date sequence with the following code:
> 
> >x<-seq(as.Date("1985-10-01"), as.Date(Sys.Date()), "months")
> 
> >x["Transits"]<-NA
> 
> >xFrame<-data.frame(x)
> 
> 
> > str(xFrame)
> 
> 'data.frame':   379 obs. of  1 variable:
>  $ x: Date, format: "1985-10-01" "1985-11-01" "1985-12-01" "1986-01-01" ...
> 
> How can I make this a dataframe with two columns (date and transits) and
> 378 observations with value NA?
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated,
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Paul
> 
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