r - cbind factor vector with level names -

i create 3 vectors , try combine them 1 table using cbind. third vector factor 3 levels. output:

 v1 <- c(1,2,3)  v2 <- c(4,5,6)  v3 <- factor(c('lorem','ipsum','dolor'))  cbind(v1,v2,v3)      v1 v2 v3 [1,]  1  4  3 [2,]  2  5  2 [3,]  3  6  1 

preferred output be:

 cbind(v1,v2,v3)      v1 v2 v3 [1,]  1  4  lorem [2,]  2  5  ipsum [3,]  3  6  dolor 

is possible level names instead of id display above?

not sure why need way. better use data.frame can hold multiple classes. using cbind, matrix , matrix can hold single class. so, if there single non-numeric value, columns transformed 'character' class.

 cbind(v1, v2, v3=levels(v3)[v3])  #     v1  v2  v3       #[1,] "1" "4" "lorem"  #[2,] "2" "5" "ipsum"  #[3,] "3" "6" "dolor" 

or

 cbind(v1, v2, v3=as.character(v3))