R help - Feb 2011 - Creating new variables. How do you get them into a data frame?

Hi

I'm an R newbie. I can't seem to add new variables to data frames. Here
are
the stages

(1) I import the data using read.csv.
(2) I fix it using fix(data)
(3) I create a new variable using
spos<-tagPOS(stim,language="en",model=NULL,tagdict=NULL).

(tagPOS is a function in the OpenNLP toolkit, which tags a string for part
of speech. "stim" is a variable in the current data frame)

What happens is that the new variable, "spos" is saved as an object,
but not
added to the data frame.

Could anyone help me with this?

Thanks

Nick Riches


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Hi Nick,

You want:
cbind(mydataframe, newvar)

and possibly also a quick read of one of the intro to R documents available
online.

Sarah

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Nick Riches <nick.riches at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm an R newbie. I can't seem to add new variables to data frames.
Here are
> the stages
>
> (1) I import the data using read.csv.
> (2) I fix it using fix(data)
> (3) I create a new variable using
> spos<-tagPOS(stim,language="en",model=NULL,tagdict=NULL).
>
> (tagPOS is a function in the OpenNLP toolkit, which tags a string for part
> of speech. "stim" is a variable in the current data frame)
>
> What happens is that the new variable, "spos" is saved as an
object, but not
> added to the data frame.
>
> Could anyone help me with this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Nick Riches
>
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Sarah Goslee
http://www.functionaldiversity.org