String as factor in R

Question

When creating a data frame in R, strings are by default converted to factors (which I don\'t mind). But when I want to create a new row to my data frame, I can\'t find a way

Answer 1

Maybe something like this is going to help you?

data.frame(c("Name one", "Name two")) -> my.data
colnames(my.data) <- "Names"

rbind(my.data, data.frame(Names="name three"))

Answer 2

The trick is to only rbind a data.frame with another data.frame and not, as you have done, with a simple vector:

my.data <- data.frame(Names = c("Name one", "Name two"))
new.row1 <- data.frame(Names = c("Name three"))
rbind(my.data, new.row1)

##        Names
## 1   Name one
## 2   Name two
## 3 Name three