[Rd] Bug report - duplicate row names with as.data.frame()

[Martyn Plummer]

On Thu, 2018-03-01 at 09:36 -0500, Ron wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to report what I think is a bug: using as.data.frame() we can
> create duplicate row names in a data frame. R version 3.4.3 (current stable
> release).
> 
> Rather than paste code in an email, please see the example formatted code
> here:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49031523/duplicate-row-names-in-r-using-as-data-frame
> 
> I posted to StackOverflow, and consensus was that we should proceed with
> this as a bug report.

Yes that is definitely a bug. 

The end of the as.data.frame.matrix method has:

    attr(value, "row.names") <- row.names
    class(value) <- "data.frame"
    value

Changing this to:

    class(value) <- "data.frame"
    row.names(value) <- row.names
    value

ensures that the row.names<-.data.frame method is called with its built
-in check for duplicate names.

There are quite a few as.data.frame methods so this could be a
recurring problem. I will check.

Martyn


> Thanks,
> Ron
> 
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