[R] rbind Missing Something: Need New Eyes

[Peter Langfelder]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>     I don't see what's missing in my statements to add rows to a data frame
> and someone else will probably see what needs to be added to the statements.
>
>   The data frame has this structure (without any data):
>
>  $ PHYLUM     : chr
>  $ SUBPHYLUM  : chr
>  $ SUPERCLASS : chr
>  $ CLASS      : chr
>  $ SUBCLASS   : chr
>  $ INFRACLASS : chr
>  $ SUPERORDER : chr
>  $ ORDER      : chr
>  $ SUBORDER   : chr
>  $ INFRAORDER : chr
>  $ SUPERFAMILY: chr
>  $ FAMILY     : chr
>  $ SUBFAMILY  : chr
>  $ TRIBE      : chr
>  $ SUBTRIBE   : chr
>  $ GENUS      : chr
>  $ TAXON      : chr
>
>   One command (all on one line) is:
>
> itis.ttable <- rbind(itis.ttable, data.frame(PHYLUM = "ARTHROPODA",
> SUBPHYLUM = "MANDIBULATA", SUPERCLASS = NA, CLASS = "INSECTA", SUBCLASS =
> "DICONDYLIA", INFRACLASS = "PTERYGOTA", SUPERORDER = "PANORPIDA", ORDER =
> "TRICHOPTERA", SUBORDER = "INTEGRIPALPIA", INFRAORDER = "PLENITENTORIA",
> SUPERFAMILY = "LIMNEPHILOIDAE", FAMILY = "LIMNEPHILIDAE", SUBFAMILY =
> "LIMNEPHILINAE", TRIBE = "STENOPHYLACINI", SUBTRIBE = NA, GENUS =
> "CHYRANDRA", TAXON = "CENTRALIS"))
>
>   R's response is to ask for more input by displaying the continuation
> prompt, +.
>

Can't reproduce your problem:

> data.frame(PHYLUM = "ARTHROPODA",
+ SUBPHYLUM = "MANDIBULATA", SUPERCLASS = NA, CLASS = "INSECTA", SUBCLASS =
+ "DICONDYLIA", INFRACLASS = "PTERYGOTA", SUPERORDER = "PANORPIDA", ORDER =
+ "TRICHOPTERA", SUBORDER = "INTEGRIPALPIA", INFRAORDER = "PLENITENTORIA",
+ SUPERFAMILY = "LIMNEPHILOIDAE", FAMILY = "LIMNEPHILIDAE", SUBFAMILY =
+ "LIMNEPHILINAE", TRIBE = "STENOPHYLACINI", SUBTRIBE = NA, GENUS =
+ "CHYRANDRA", TAXON = "CENTRALIS")
      PHYLUM   SUBPHYLUM SUPERCLASS   CLASS   SUBCLASS INFRACLASS SUPERORDER
1 ARTHROPODA MANDIBULATA         NA INSECTA DICONDYLIA  PTERYGOTA  PANORPIDA
        ORDER      SUBORDER    INFRAORDER    SUPERFAMILY        FAMILY
1 TRICHOPTERA INTEGRIPALPIA PLENITENTORIA LIMNEPHILOIDAE LIMNEPHILIDAE
      SUBFAMILY          TRIBE SUBTRIBE     GENUS     TAXON
1 LIMNEPHILINAE STENOPHYLACINI       NA CHYRANDRA CENTRALIS

> itis.ttable = data.frame(PHYLUM = "ARTHROPODA",
+ SUBPHYLUM = "MANDIBULATA", SUPERCLASS = NA, CLASS = "INSECTA", SUBCLASS =
+ "DICONDYLIA", INFRACLASS = "PTERYGOTA", SUPERORDER = "PANORPIDA", ORDER =
+ "TRICHOPTERA", SUBORDER = "INTEGRIPALPIA", INFRAORDER = "PLENITENTORIA",
+ SUPERFAMILY = "LIMNEPHILOIDAE", FAMILY = "LIMNEPHILIDAE", SUBFAMILY =
+ "LIMNEPHILINAE", TRIBE = "STENOPHYLACINI", SUBTRIBE = NA, GENUS =
+ "CHYRANDRA", TAXON = "CENTRALIS")

> itis.ttable <- rbind(itis.ttable, data.frame(PHYLUM = "ARTHROPODA",
+ SUBPHYLUM = "MANDIBULATA", SUPERCLASS = NA, CLASS = "INSECTA", SUBCLASS =
+ "DICONDYLIA", INFRACLASS = "PTERYGOTA", SUPERORDER = "PANORPIDA", ORDER =
+ "TRICHOPTERA", SUBORDER = "INTEGRIPALPIA", INFRAORDER = "PLENITENTORIA",
+ SUPERFAMILY = "LIMNEPHILOIDAE", FAMILY = "LIMNEPHILIDAE", SUBFAMILY =
+ "LIMNEPHILINAE", TRIBE = "STENOPHYLACINI", SUBTRIBE = NA, GENUS =
+ "CHYRANDRA", TAXON = "CENTRALIS"))
>

All complete without any continuation prompts.

Peter