You haven't provided a reproducible example. You haven't even provided a subset of your data, or the commands you used to read it in.
I might guess that 

VAL <- DailyDiary[[1]]

might be what you wanted, and the "str" function might help you understand why. Also, the "c" function does not "coerce" object types... it embeds the arguments into a new vector.
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jawbonemurphy <jdurlandster@gmail.com> wrote:

I have a related question...I have a data frame similar with 74 rows that I
created with "header=TRUE", but when I try to coerce one of the data frame
columns into a vector, it shows up as having length 1, even though when I
print it, it shows 74 elements:

> VAL <- c(DailyDiary[1])
> VAL
> [1] 3 3 3 2 3 3 4 4 3 3 2 1 1 4 3 3 2 3 3 2 2 3 3 3 1 2 2
[28] 1 1 3 3 3 2 4 3 2 3 4 3 3 3 3 4 3 2 3 2 3 1 2 1 2 3 1
[55] 0 3 2 4 3 1 2 3 1 1 1 4 3 2 1 2 3 3 3 2
>length(VAL)
[1] 1

On the other hand, I can easily coerce the row names to a vector of length
74

> partf <- row.names(DailyDiary)
> length(partf)
[1] 74

What I would like to do is make VAL into a vector with length 74 instead of
length 1 so I can sort it using use "partf" as factors. I tried
"as.vector", but it doesn't let you specify the length. Any ideas? Thanks,
and sorry if I'm being unclear or stupid, I'm a newbie :)

Logan

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