sum two columns in R

Question

I feel a bit embarrassed as I am trying to add two columns in R to get the product.

I have tried

sum(col1,col2)

but this returns

Answer 1

Try this for creating a column3 as a sum of column1 + column 2 in a table

tablename$column3=rowSums(cbind(tablename$column1,tablename$column2))