Here we are explaining how to write an R program to add a new column in a given data frame. Here we are using a built-in function data.frame() for this. A data frame is used for storing data tables which has a list of vectors with equal length. The data frames are created by function data.frame(), which has tightly coupled collections of variables. The syntax of this function is,
data.frame(…, row.names = NULL, check.rows = FALSE,check.names = TRUE, fix.empty.names = TRUE,stringsAsFactors = default.stringsAsFactors())
Where dots(...) indicates the arguments are of either the form value or tag = value and row. name is a NULL or a single integer or character string.
Below are the steps used in the R program to add a new column in a given data frame. In this R program, we directly give the data frame to a built-in function. Here we are using variables E, N, S, A, Q for holding different types of vectors. Call the function data.frame() for creating dataframe. Finally, add a new column to a given data frame by calling like E$country
STEP 1: Assign variables E,N,S,A,Q with vector values
STEP 2: First print original vector values
STEP 3: Add a new column in a given data frame as E$country
STEP 4: Print the final data frame
E = data.frame(
N = c('Jhon', 'Hialy', 'Albert', 'James', 'Delma'),
S = c(10, 9.5, 12.2, 11, 8),
A = c(2, 1, 2, 4, 1),
Q = c('yes', 'no', 'yes', 'no', 'no')
)
print("Original dataframe:")
print(E)
print("New data frame after adding the 'country' column:")
E$country = c("USA","INDIA","USA","INDIA","USA")
print(E)
[1] "Original dataframe:" name score attempts qualify 1 Jhon 10 2 yes 2 Hialy 9.5 1 no 3 Albert 12.2 2 yes 4 James 11 4 no 5 Delma 8 1 no [1] "New data frame after adding the 'country' column:" name score attempts qualify country 1 Jhon 10 2 yes USA 2 Hialy 9.5 1 no INDIA 3 Albert 12.2 2 yes USA 4 James 11 4 no INDIA 5 Delma 8 1 no USA