diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index e156adb69..8646f3ddd 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ Description: Easily implement a variety of simulation models, with a focus on
     installed with `install.packages("fastshp", repos="http://rforge.net",
     type="source")`.
 URL: https://github.com/PredictiveEcology/SpaDES
-Version: 1.0.2
-Date: 2015-09-09
+Version: 1.0.3
+Date: 2015-09-10
 Authors@R: c(
     person(c("Alex", "M"), "Chubaty", email="alexander.chubaty@canada.ca",
     role=c("aut", "cre")),
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5e4af7949..778d8818d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 Known issues: https://github.com/PredictiveEcology/SpaDES/issues
 
+version 1.0.3
+=============
+* fully fix `inputs` data.frame construction in `simInit` (#225)
+
 version 1.0.2
 =============
 * update maintainer's and authors' email addresses
diff --git a/R/simList-accessors.R b/R/simList-accessors.R
index ed0c1a587..3d9a1788d 100644
--- a/R/simList-accessors.R
+++ b/R/simList-accessors.R
@@ -854,7 +854,7 @@ setReplaceMethod(
      columns <- pmatch(names(fileTable), names(value))
      setnames(value, old = colnames(value)[na.omit(columns)],
                      new = colnames(fileTable)[!is.na(columns)])
-     object@inputs <- bind_rows(list(value, fileTable), stringsAsFactors = FALSE) %>%
+     object@inputs <- bind_rows(list(value, fileTable)) %>%
        as.data.frame(stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
      #object@inputs$file <- file.path(inputPath(object),object@inputs$file)
    } else {
diff --git a/R/simulation.R b/R/simulation.R
index 17c884726..cf3851fb9 100644
--- a/R/simulation.R
+++ b/R/simulation.R
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ setMethod(
           loadTime = as.numeric(time(sim, "seconds")),
           loaded=TRUE,
           stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
-      ), stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
+      ))
     }
 
     # keep session info for debugging & checkpointing