[R] R annoyances

[Uwe Ligges]

Chalasani, Prasad wrote:

> Thanks all for pointing out that I can use 
> 	mtx[,1,drop=F]


Which, for example, won't work for
  F <- 10.25

---> drop=FALSE  !
           ^^^^^

Uwe Ligges



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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 10:49 AM
> To: Chalasani, Prasad
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] R annoyances
> 
> 
> Chalasani, Prasad wrote:
> 
>>Dear R Folks,
>>I'm a big fan of R, but there are a couple of things
>>that repeatedly annoy me, and I wondered if anyone
>>has neat ways to deal with them.
>>
>>(a) When using "apply" row-wise to a matrix, it returns
>>    the results column-wise, and to preserve the original
>>    orientation, I've to do a transpose. E.g. I've to keep
>>    doing a transpose, which I consider to be quite annoying.
>>	
>>    transformed.mtx <- t(apply( mtx, 1, exp))
> 
> 
> I'd rather type
> 
>    exp(mtx)
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>(b) When extracting 2 or more columns of a matrix, 
>>    R returns the result as a matrix, BUT when extracting
>>    just one column, it returns a vector/array, rather than
>>    a matrix, so I've to keep doing as.matrix, which is annoying.
>>
>>	sub.mtx <- as.matrix(mtx[,1])
>>
>>	Of course I could write a suitable function
>>		cols <- function(mtx,range) as.matrix(mtx[, range])
>>	but then I lose the syntactic sugar of being able to say "[,1]".
> 
> 
> The docs suggest:
> 
>    mtx[ , 1, drop = FALSE]
> 
> 
> Uwe Ligges
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