Initializing data.frames() [duplicate]

Is there a quick way to initialize an empty data frame? If you know what the dimensions will be? For example:

Suppose I would like a blank data frame that has 100 rows and 10:

x <- data.frame(1:100,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10) 
dim(x) ## that's right

But suppose I want something like 300 columns? How do I quickly initialize columns in a data.frame?

x <- data.frame(1:100,2,3,4,5 ....) ## *cries*

> df <- data.frame(matrix(ncol = 300, nrow = 100))
> dim(df)
[1] 100 300

I always just convert a matrix:

x <- as.data.frame(matrix(nrow = 100, ncol = 10))

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