Convert Named Character Vector to data.frame

Question

I have a named character vector returned from xmlAttrs like this:

testVect <- structure(c(\"11.2.0.3.0\", \"12.89\", \"12.71\"), .Names = c(\"db_version\"         


        

Answer 1

The answers from @MatthewPlourde and @JackRyan work, but if you have a long named vector it is annoying to have a data frame with one row and many columns. If you'd rather have a "key" column and a "value" column with many rows, any of the following should work:

data.frame(keyName=names(testVect), value=testVect, row.names=NULL)

##        keyName      value
## 1   db_version 11.2.0.3.0
## 2 elapsed_time      12.89
## 3     cpu_time      12.71


## Suggested by @JWilliman
tibble::enframe(testVect)

## # A tibble: 3 x 2
##   name         value
##           
## 1 db_version   11.2.0.3.0
## 2 elapsed_time 12.89
## 3 cpu_time     12.71


## Suggested by @Joe
stack(testVect)
##       values          ind
## 1 11.2.0.3.0   db_version
## 2      12.89 elapsed_time
## 3      12.71     cpu_time