Need to convert columns to rows in R
I have data that looks like a b c 1 5 4 3 6 1 2 5 3 I want to convert it to convert all the columns to rows and want an output like r1 r2 r3 r4 a 1 3 2 b 5 6 5 c 4 1 3 Thanks in advance We can transpose the dataset and convert to data.frame with the first column as the row names. m1 <- t(df1) d2 <- data.frame(r1= row.names(m1), m1, row.names=NULL) EDIT: Included the row.names argument in the data.frame call (from @Richard Scriven's comment) Or as @Ananda Mahto mentioned, we can use names(df1) to create the 'r1' column, thereby skipping the creation of an object in the global environment. d2 <-