Try this also:

cbind(dataTest, `colnames<-`(cbind(new.data[1:nrow(dataTest)]), name))

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Ralf B <ralf.bierig@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have this (non-working) script:
>
> dataTest <- data.frame(col1=c(1,2,3))
> new.data <- c(1,2)
> name <- "test"
> n.row <- dim(dataTest)[1]
> length(new.data) <- n.row
> names(new.data) <- name
> cbind(dataTest, name=new.data)
> print(dataTest)
>
> and would like to bind the new column 'new.data' to 'dataTest' by
> using the value of the variable 'name' as the column name.
>
> The end result should look like this:
>
>      col1     test
> 1      1          1
> 2      2          2
> 3      3          NA
>
>
> The best I got was that 'name' became the column name but never the
> actual value of 'name'. How can i do that?
>
> (This is actually a function that runs many time -- this means a
> manual workaround is not feasible).
>
> Ralf
>
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