[Rd] strange behaviour read.table and clipboard
Robert Baer
rbaer at atsu.edu
Wed Aug 16 15:03:37 CEST 2017
You said, "put a name in the cell". Does that mean you forgot a header
= TRUE?
On 8/16/2017 1:25 AM, PIKAL Petr wrote:
> Hi Duncan
>
> The simples spreadsheet is:
>
> Put a name in the cell, let say "a1"
> Put number e.g. 1 below "a1"
> Copy the number to enough rows
> Select this column and press ctrl-c
>
> result is
>
>> temp<- read.delim("clipboard")
>> str(temp)
> 'data.frame': 1513 obs. of 1 variable:
> $ a1: Factor w/ 2 levels "1","a1": 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
>> which(temp$a1=="a1")
> [1] 1365
> I tested it in vanilla R
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R Under development (unstable) (2017-07-31 r73003)
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 14393)
>
> Matrix products: default
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=Czech_Czech Republic.1250 LC_CTYPE=Czech_Czech Republic.1250
> [3] LC_MONETARY=Czech_Czech Republic.1250 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=Czech_Czech Republic.1250
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] compiler_3.5.0
> Excel 16 or 15 I am not sure.
>
> R-devel 2015 (69443) works as expected so it started a believe around May or June this year, when I installed new R version.
>
> I hope it could help to trace the problem. If I can help any further, let me know.
>
> Best regards
> Petr
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 12:35 AM
>> To: PIKAL Petr <petr.pikal at precheza.cz>; r-devel at r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [Rd] strange behaviour read.table and clipboard
>>
>> On 15/08/2017 10:03 AM, PIKAL Petr wrote:
>>> Dear all
>>>
>>> I used to transfer data from excel to R by simple ctrl-c and
>> read.delim("clipboard") construction. I know it is a bad practice but it is easy
>> and for quick exploratory work it is OK. However after changing to new R devel
>> few days ago I encountered weird behaviour. I tried one or two columns.
>>
>> You haven't posted something that is reproducible. I don't have Excel, but I can
>> cut and paste from Libreoffice, and I don't see this.
>> However, it's not the same spreadsheet as you used, so I wouldn't be
>> comfortable saying I did what you did.
>>
>> Please reduce the size of your spreadsheet if you can, and then post
>> instructions for how to construct it, and what to cut and paste from it.
>> Then others can try what you did and see if this is specific to your machine, to
>> that particular version of R-devel, to Excel, etc.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>>
>>> In case of 2 columns, header is repeated after 526 items
>>>> mar<-read.delim("clipboard")
>>>> which(mar$a2=="a1")
>>> [1] 525 1051 1577
>>>> diff(which(mar$a2=="a1"))
>>> [1] 526 526
>>> and only first header item is repeated.
>>>
>>> In case of one column, header is repeated after 1107 items
>>>
>>>> mar<-read.delim("clipboard")
>>>> diff(which(mar$a2=="a2"))
>>> [1] 1107 1107
>>>
>>> And all items in object are therefore changed to factor.
>>>
>>> BTW, readxl package works on same excel file smoothly.
>>>
>>> I will try to download the most recent R version to check it, but it could take
>> some time due to our IT issues.
>>> Best regards
>>> Petr
>>>
>>>> version
>>> _
>>> platform x86_64-w64-mingw32
>>> arch x86_64
>>> os mingw32
>>> system x86_64, mingw32
>>> status Under development (unstable)
>>> major 3
>>> minor 5.0
>>> year 2017
>>> month 07
>>> day 31
>>> svn rev 73003
>>> language R
>>> version.string R Under development (unstable) (2017-07-31 r73003)
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