[Rd] as.matrix.data.frame() warning for POSIXt columns
David Brahm
brahm at alum.mit.edu
Wed Jul 21 01:36:16 CEST 2004
as.matrix.data.frame() issues a spurious warning for POSIXt columns in R-1.9.1:
R> x <- data.frame(date=as.POSIXct("2004-07-20"))
R> as.matrix(x)
date
1 "2004-07-20"
Warning message: longer object length is not a multiple of shorter
object length in: cl == c("Date", "POSIXct", "POSIXlt")
This bug also affects write.table(x), which uses as.matrix.data.frame(x). It
arises because the function is comparing the column class, which is a vector of
length 2, to a vector of possible values of length 3, using == instead of %in%.
It was discussed in R-help on May 24,2004 by Don MacQueen <macq at llnl.gov> and
Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>, where Brian Ripley said:
BDR> The Warning is wrong, though, and will be fixed.
but it is still there as of R-patched_2004-07-20.
The following patch to R-1.9.1/src/library/base/R/dataframe.R ought to do it:
agate> diff dataframe.R dataframe.new.R
1044c1044
< any(cl == c("Date", "POSIXct", "POSIXlt"))))
---
> any(cl %in% c("Date", "POSIXct", "POSIXlt"))))
--
-- David Brahm (brahm at alum.mit.edu)
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