[Rd] editor in Windows doesn't like a data frame with row names (PR#798)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 jfox@mcmaster.ca wrote:

> The editor in R version 1.2.0 returns an error after editing a data frame 
> that has row names. This is on a Windows 2000 system, but I've encountered 
> the same problem under Windows 95. Here's a simple example:

Actually, that's not where the error is. If you use traceback() you
will see it is in edit.data.frame.  That tries to use row.names to set the
rownames on a list, which no longer works (and was never documented to).

The fix is to use

    out <- as.data.frame(out)
    if (edit.row.names) {
        if (any(duplicated(rn))) 
            warning("edited row names contain duplicates and will be
ignored")
        else row.names(out) <- rn
    }
    out

or, if you don't want to edit the row names,

edit(foo, edit.row.names = FALSE)

BTW, you are supposed to use row.names to get/set row names on data frame,
and rownames/colnames on a matrix.


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>  > data(Formaldehyde)
>  > Formaldehyde
>    carb optden
> 1  0.1  0.086
> 2  0.3  0.269
> 3  0.5  0.446
> 4  0.6  0.538
> 5  0.7  0.626
> 6  0.9  0.782
>  > edit(Formaldehyde) # no problem here
>    carb optden
> 1  0.1  0.086
> 2  0.3  0.269
> 3  0.5  0.446
> 4  0.6  0.538
> 5  0.7  0.626
> 6  0.9  0.782
>  > rownames(Formaldehyde)
> [1] "1" "2" "3" "4" "5" "6"
>  > rownames(Formaldehyde)<-letters[1:6]
>  > Formaldehyde # seems ok
>    carb optden
> a  0.1  0.086
> b  0.3  0.269
> c  0.5  0.446
> d  0.6  0.538
> e  0.7  0.626
> f  0.9  0.782
>  > edit(Formaldehyde) # I simply closed the editor without changing anything
> Error in rownames<-(x, value) : dimnames applied to non-array
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> Version:
>   platform = i386-pc-mingw32
>   arch = x86
>   os = Win32
>   system = x86, Win32
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>   major = 1
>   minor = 2.0
>   year = 2000
>   month = 12
>   day = 15
>   language = R
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