[R] How to append to a data.frame?

[David Kreil]

Ok, how can I both allocate storage and specify column names in a data.frame 
call, please? Apologies if I'm being slow here.

With many thanks again,

David.

> > Yes, once I've named the first column, I can add further ones by saying 
> > d[c("x","y","z")]=NA or such. I was just wondering whether that was the way to 
> > do it or whether there was a more elegant approach. Preallocation was the 
> > critical clue I needed.
> 
> Use an initial data.frame call naming all the columns.
> 
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