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This is a simple problem, but a mystery to me. I'm trying to grab $Family "Scelionidae" from one dataframe and put it into another dataframe occupied with NA in $Family. The result is a "158" ends up there instead of Scelionidae. Simply put fam$Family[1] <- least$Family[1] If I have made a mistake here, can somebody point it out. I've included the simpl...

...as.character(fam$Family) and try again. It may be helpful if you read up on R's factors, see ?factor. HTH, Peter On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Glen Forister <gforister at gmail.com> wrote: > This is a simple problem, but a mystery to me. > I'm trying to grab $Family "Scelionidae" from one dataframe and put it into > another dataframe occupied with NA in $Family. The result is a "158" ends > up there instead of Scelionidae. > Simply put fam$Family[1] <- least$Family[1] > > If I have made a mistake here, can somebody point it out. I...

...in. It may be helpful if you read up on R's factors, see ?factor. > > HTH, > > Peter > > On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Glen Forister <gforister at gmail.com> wrote: > > This is a simple problem, but a mystery to me. > > I'm trying to grab $Family "Scelionidae" from one dataframe and put it > > into another dataframe occupied with NA in $Family. The result is a > > "158" ends up there instead of Scelionidae. > > Simply put fam$Family[1] <- least$Family[1] > > > > If I have made a mistake here, can so...