How to initialize empty data frame (lot of columns at the same time) in R

Question

I found how to initialize an empty data frame with 3 or 4 dimensions. It\'s like

df <- data.frame(Date=as.Date(character()),
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Answer 1

Maybe this -

df <- data.frame(matrix(ncol = 10000, nrow = 0))
colnames(df) <- paste0("hello", c(1:10000))

And @joran's suggestion - df <- setNames(data.frame(matrix(ncol = 10000, nrow = 0)),paste0("hello", c(1:10000)))