cbind question, please

What are you expecting?

dog <- 1:3
cat <- 2:4
tree <- 5:7
big.char <- c("dog","cat","tree")

xx <-  cbind(dog, cat, tree, big.char)

gives me
xx1  <-  structure(c("1", "2", "3", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "dog",
"cat", "tree"), .Dim = 3:4, .Dimnames = list(NULL, c("dog", "cat",
"tree", "big.char")))



John Kane
Kingston ON Canada

-----Original Message-----
From: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com
Sent: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:41:05 -0400
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] cbind question, please

Hello!

I have a cbind type question, please:  Suppose I have the following:

dog <- 1:3
cat <- 2:4
tree <- 5:7

and a character vector
big.char <- c("dog","cat","tree")

I want to end up with a matrix that is a "cbind" of dog, cat, and tree.
This is a toy example.  There will be a bunch of variables.

I experimented with "do.call", but all I got was
1
2
3

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.  I still think that do.call
might be the key, but I'm not sure.

R Version 3-1.3, Windows 7.

Thanks,
Erin


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Erin Hodgess
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematical and Statistics
University of Houston - Downtown
mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com

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