[Rd] as.data.frame.character lacks nm= argument
peter dalgaard
pdalgd at gmail.com
Fri Sep 14 17:10:48 CEST 2012
On Sep 14, 2012, at 15:25 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On 13/09/2012 21:48, Bert Gunter wrote:
>> Bill:
>>
>> as.data.frame.character() has no nm, argument, so providing one causes
>> the error as you can see from the code. Presumably, this is what you
>> meant by bug/inconsistency, right?
>
> This is using an undocumented argument, 'nm'. I don't believe anything is said about what might happen if you do that except that it will be passed to methods -- they are not obliged to accept it.
>
> If it were intended for this to be a feature, I think the author might have chosen a less opaque name than 'nm'.
It wasn't, but the author (me) might have chosen a _more_ opaque name if he had thought it necessary to keep people from using undocumented arguments. As it happened, I think I just promoted a variable name inside as.data.frame.vector to become an argument.
But it was a long time ago, in a different job, and besides....
>
> Where we go from here is under discussion in R-core.
>
>>
>> -- Bert
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:32 PM, William Dunlap <wdunlap at tibco.com> wrote:
>>> 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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>>
>>
>
>
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