[Rd] [[<-.data.frame with POSIXt replacement (PR#4808)

[Jim Rogers]

??? Smart aleck? Honestly, I am trying my best to help. What in what I
wrote makes me sound like a smart aleck? 

I now understand that I did not do everything I should have, but I
checked the places that occurred to me to check: the release notes for
1.8.0, the documentation for "[[<-" and "$<-", and an R site search for
"$<-" and "[[<-". Having thought about it, and having consulted the FAQ
for bug reports, there was nothing else that I knew to do (short of
submitting a question to R-help, in which case I was afraid I would be
accused of submitting a bug report to the wrong place). 

I took a couple hours out of my day to be as sure as possible that I was
submitting a real bug. I realize that a couple hours is nothing compared
to the time that you and the development team contribute. Nonetheless,
please understand that I sent the report in the spirit of doing my
little bit to help. It would have been MUCH easier for me to do nothing
at all. Surely there is a place in the R project for people like me who,
though inexpert and unable to commit full time to the project, still
want to contribute without the fear of being insulted? 

I truly do not understand. 

Jim  


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] 
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 2:00 PM
> To: Jim Rogers
> Cc: r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch; R-bugs at biostat.ku.dk
> Subject: Re: [Rd] [[<-.data.frame with POSIXt replacement (PR#4808)
> 
> 
> It is not a bug in 1.8.0.  It was a bug in 1.7.0 (and .1).
> X
> You cannot assign a POSIXlt value to a data frame correctly.
> 
> Please do RTFM, especially the NEWS file.  We don't need smart alecks 
> here.
> 
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 jrogers at cantatapharm.com wrote:
> 
> > The following seems to be a bug introduced with version 1.8.0 (it 
> > worked without error on my installation of version 1.7.0):
> > 
> > > test <- data.frame(time = I(c("2003-08-19:22:55:57"))) 
> > > test[["time"]] <- strptime(test[["time"]], format =
> > "%Y-%m-%d:%H:%M:%S")
> > Error in "[[<-.data.frame"(`*tmp*`, "time", value = 
> > strptime(test[["time"]],  :
> > 	replacement has 9 rows, data has 1
> > > ## This generates the same error:
> > > # test$time <- strptime(test$time, format = "%Y-%m-%d:%H:%M:%S")
> > 
> >          _              
> > platform i386-pc-mingw32
> > arch     i386           
> > os       mingw32        
> > system   i386, mingw32  
> > status                  
> > major    1              
> > minor    8.0            
> > year     2003           
> > month    10             
> > day      08             
> > language R            
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Jim
> > 
> > James A. Rogers, Ph.D. <rogers at cantatapharm.com>
> > Statistical Scientist
> > Cantata Pharmaceuticals
> > 300 Technology Square, 5th floor
> > Cambridge, MA  02139
> > 617.225.9009 x312
> > Fax 617.225.9010
> > 
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> > 
> 
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