Length of data.frame column

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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