Is there an easy way to create a data frame in R with the same vector repeating itself "n" times (as n coumns)?

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Imagine I have a vector (the contents of which are not relevant for this example)

aux<-c(1:5)

I need to create a data frame that has the same vector repeating itself n times (n can vary, sometimes it is 8 times, sometimes it is 7)

I did it like this for repeating itself 8 times:

aux.df<-data.frame(aux,aux,aux,aux,aux,aux,aux,aux)

This got me the result I wanted but you can see why it's not an ideal way...

is there a package, function, way to tell R to repeat the vector 'aux' 8 times?

I also tried creating a matrix and then transforming it into a data frame but that didn't work and I got a weird data frame with vectors inside of each cell... what I tried that didn't work:

aux.df<- as.data.frame(matrix(aux, nrows=5, ncol=8))

Solution

Using replicate().

as.data.frame(replicate(8, aux))
#   V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8
# 1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1
# 2  2  2  2  2  2  2  2  2
# 3  3  3  3  3  3  3  3  3
# 4  4  4  4  4  4  4  4  4
# 5  5  5  5  5  5  5  5  5