As.vector does not convert data.frame subset to vector

Question

Below I have provided a snippet of some code that I have been working on. I have been sucessfully reading in string as tables. There exist some subset of my tables which I

Answer 1

Data frames are lists. Even if you select just a single row of a data, it's still a list.

Try unlist. (Assuming all the values in your "row" are of course numeric. If they aren't, that you have bigger problems.)