How to force a vector to be column or row vector?

From: Gabor Grothendieck

Try this:


rbind(c(x))
cbind(c(x))
t(c(x))

The c() is not needed above.

The poster asked for an expression that would work "regardless of
the original form" of the vector -- row, column or neither.  The c
gets it into a known form first.  For example:

cbind(matrix(1,1,3))  # not a column vector!

[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,]    1    1    1