What does the error "arguments imply differing number of rows: x, y" mean?

Solution 1:

Your data.frame mat is rectangular (n_rows!= n_cols).

Therefore, you cannot make a data.frame out of the column- and rownames, because each column in a data.frame must be the same length.

Maybe this suffices your needs:

require(reshape2)
mat$id <- rownames(mat) 
melt(mat)

Solution 2:

I had the same error message so I went googling a bit I managed to fix it with the following code.

df<-data.frame(words = unlist(words))

words is a character list.

This just in case somebody else needs the output to be a data frame.