[Rd] print problem with data frames (PR#698)
Robert Gentleman
rgentlem@stat.auckland.ac.nz
Tue, 17 Oct 2000 04:06:30 +1300
This is known (at least to some of us) and there are other problems
with data frames and their printing. Hopefully I will have some
fixes for 1.2.
Robert
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 03:01:28PM +0200, J.C.Rougier@durham.ac.uk wrote:
> Another one from the student computer practicals: it is possible
> to create a dataframe that cannot be printed. Thus
>
> > fred <- data.frame(happy=c(TRUE, FALSE, TRUE), sad=7:9)
> > tmp <- fred[c(FALSE, FALSE, TRUE, TRUE)] # no error message!
> > tmp
> Error in as.matrix.data.frame(x) : dim<- length of dims do not match the length of object
> > print.default(tmp)
> $"NA"
> NULL
>
> $"NA"
> NULL
>
> attr(,"class")
> [1] "data.frame"
>
> This obviously relates to my previous posting to r-devel about
> subscripting objects with logical vectors that are not the right
> length.
>
> Cheers, Jonathan.
>
> --please do not edit the information below--
>
> Version:
> platform = sparc-sun-solaris2.7
> arch = sparc
> os = solaris2.7
> system = sparc, solaris2.7
> status =
> major = 1
> minor = 1.1
> year = 2000
> month = August
> day = 15
> language = R
>
> Search Path:
> .GlobalEnv, Autoloads, package:base
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