Hi Meredith,

Why not just use paste()?

cuyahoga_nf$newcolumn <- paste(cuyahoga_nf[,1], cuyahoga_nf[,2],
cuyahoga_nf[,3], ..... , cuyahoga_nf[,4])

Best,
Steve Politzer_ahles


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> From: Meredith Ballard LaBeau <mmballar@mtu.edu>
> To: r-help@r-project.org
> Cc:
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 5:51 PM
> Subject: [R] Merging multiple columns into one column
>
> Good Evening-
> I have a dataframe that has 10 columns that has a header and 7306 rows in
> each column, I want to combine these columns into one. I utilized the stack
> function but it only returned 3/4 of the data...my code is:
> where nfcuy_bw is the dataframe with 7305 obs. and 10 variables
> Once I apply this code I only receive a data frame with 58440 obs. of 2
> variables, of which there should be 73,050 obs. of 2 variables, just
> wondering what is happening here?
>
> View(nfcuy_bw)
>
> attach(nfcuy_bw)
>
> cuyahoga_nf<-data.frame(s5,s10,s25,s27,s33,s41,s51,his_c)
>
> cuy_nf<-stack(cuyahoga_nf)
>
> Thanks
> Meredith
>
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