data.frame does not recycle consistently (PR#1713)
ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Thu, 27 Jun 2002 17:52:42 +0100 (BST)
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 Kevin.Wright@pioneer.com wrote:
> Full_Name: Kevin Wright
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> Note that the examples below do work in S (S-Plus 2000).
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> It appears that data.frame does not recycle text strings. Maybe has something
> to do with coercion to factors???
Yes, it is. Not sure why that makes it inconsistent, though.
Vectors are recycled, other objects are not, and that is determined after
conversion to a column of a data frame. We could fairly easily allow
factors and simple "AsIs" objects to be recycled.
BTW, S-PLUS 2000 is not S, and its data frame code is quite a lot
different from the original S code. It also makes mistakes: compare
> data.frame(x=c("A","B"),y=I("C"))
> data.frame(x=c("A","B"),y=I(rep("C", 2)))
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> > data.frame(x=1:2,y=1)
> x y
> 1 1 1
> 2 2 1
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> > data.frame(x=c("A","B"),y=T)
> x y
> 1 A TRUE
> 2 B TRUE
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> > data.frame(x=c("A","B"),y="C")
> Error in data.frame(x = c("A", "B"), y = "C") :
> arguments imply differing number of rows: 2, 1
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