From ?cbind: Data frame methods The cbind data frame method is just a wrapper for data.frame(..., check.names = FALSE). This means that it will split matrix columns in data frame arguments, and convert character columns to factors unless stringsAsFactors = TRUE is passed.
(I'm guessing 'spectrum' is a data.frame before the code fragment you've shown) hope this helps, Tony Plate Johannes Graumann wrote: > Why is class(spectrum[["Ion"]]) after this "factor"? > > spectrum <- cbind(spectrum,Ion=rep("", > nrow(spectrum)),Deviation.AMU=rep(0.0, nrow(spectrum))) > > slowly going crazy ... > > Joh > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.