[R] generate multiple probability distributions

[Michael Friendly]

I want to generate a collection of probability distributions in a data 
frame, with
varying parameters.  There must be some simpler way than what I have below
(avoiding rbind and cbind), but I can't quite see it.

x <- seq(0,12)
bin.df <- as.data.frame(
     rbind( cbind(x, prob=dbinom(x,12,1/6), p=1/6),
            cbind(x, prob=dbinom(x,12,1/3), p=1/3),
            cbind(x, prob=dbinom(x,12,1/2), p=1/2),
            cbind(x, prob=dbinom(x,12,2/3), p=2/3)
           ))
bin.df$p <- factor(bin.df$p, labels=c("1/6", "1/3", "1/2", "2/3"))
str(bin.df)

 > str(bin.df)
'data.frame':   52 obs. of  3 variables:
  $ x   : num  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ...
  $ prob: num  0.1122 0.2692 0.2961 0.1974 0.0888 ...
  $ p   : Factor w/ 4 levels "1/6","1/3","1/2",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
 >

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