In R data.frame, promote rownames to actual column

Question

I have a data frame with one column and row names like this,

 > df
             freq
    hello     4
    sorry     2
    bad       9
    good      4     
         


        

Answer 1

df <- data.frame(freq=c(4,2,9,4,1),row.names=c('hello','sorry','bad','good','great'));
df;
##       freq
## hello    4
## sorry    2
## bad      9
## good     4
## great    1
df <- data.frame(word=rownames(df),freq=df$freq);
df;
##    word freq
## 1 hello    4
## 2 sorry    2
## 3   bad    9
## 4  good    4
## 5 great    1

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Edit: On second thought, a better way to do this, which avoids having to hard-code the name of the existing column, and will work with any number of existing columns, is as follows:

df <- data.frame(word=rownames(df),df,row.names=NULL);
df;
##    word freq
## 1 hello    4
## 2 sorry    2
## 3   bad    9
## 4  good    4
## 5 great    1

Answer 2

you can just do this

   df$word=row.names(df)