Lemon drops

I bumped into the following situation:

Browse[1]> coef
            deg0NA deg4NA deg8NA deg0NP deg4NP deg8NP
(Intercept)    462    510    528    492    660    762
Browse[1]> coef[,1]
[1] 462
Browse[1]> coef[,1,drop=F]
            deg0NA
(Intercept)    462

where I really wanted neither, but

(Intercept)
        462

Anyone happen to know a neat way out of the conundrum?

I can think of

rowSums(coef[,1,drop=F])

or of course

val <- coef[,1]
names(val) <- rownames(x))

but the first one is sneaky and the second gets a bit tedious...

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