[Rd] as.data.frame.character lacks nm= argument

William Dunlap wdunlap at tibco.com
Thu Sep 13 22:32:40 CEST 2012


Is the following behavior with as.data.frame(nm=...) a bug?  It is an inconsistency:

> as.data.frame(LETTERS[1:10], nm="FirstTenLetters")
Error in as.data.frame.vector(x, ..., nm = nm) : 
  formal argument "nm" matched by multiple actual arguments

nm= works for integer arguments:

> as.data.frame(1:10, nm="OneToTen")
   OneToTen
1         1
2         2
3         3
4         4
5         5
6         6
7         7
8         8
9         9
10       10

Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com



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