How to convert a DataFrame row into character vector in R?

If we want to turn a dataframe row into a character vector then we can use as.character() method In R, we can construct a character vector by enclosing the vector values in double quotation marks, but if we want to create a character vector from data frame row values, we can use the as character function.
For example, if we have a data frame df then the values in the first row of the df can be turned into character vector using as.character(df[1,]).

Syntax: as.character(df[rownum, ])

Example 1: Here we are going to turn dataframe row into a character vector.

Here we will create a dataframe and then convert it to a vector.

R

# creating dataframe
data <- data.frame(x1 = 1:5,
                  x2 = letters[1:5],
                  x3 = 6:10)

# converting first row into character vector
first_row_vector = as.character(data[1, ]);

print(first_row_vector)

Output:

[1] "1" "1" "6"

Example 2: Converting row-wise dataframe into the vector.

R

data <- data.frame(x1 = c("rahul", "vikas") ,
                  x2 = letters[1:2],
                  x3 = c(1,2))

first_row_vector = as.character(data[2, ]);

print("dataFrame")
print(data)

print("character vector of first row is" )
print(first_row_vector)

Output: