[R] str and structable error

[Uwe Ligges]

Petr Pikal wrote:

> Hallo
> 
> I encountered a behaviour which puzzles me (but 
> finally I did get what I wanted).
> 
> I used structable and strucplot but I wanted to change 
> names of variables in structable object. I tried to subset 
> it, use names but to no avail. So I tried str and 
> expected to get a structure of an object but:
> 
> 
>>sss<-structable(Titanic)
>>str(sss)
> 
> Error in "[.structable"(x, args[[1]], ) : subscript out of 
> bounds

Looks like package vcd needs a separate structable method for the str() 
generic.

Uwe Ligges



> Finally I learned, that I need to change attributes of 
> structable object.
> 
> Is this error message OK and I did not read 
> documentation properly? Or is it normal that str gives 
> an error on some objects but I just was not so lucky to 
> meet one?.
> 
> W2000, R2.2.0, vcd package Built: R 2.2.0; ; 2005-11-
> 22 14:23:44; windows, 
> 
> Best regards.
> 
> Petr
> 
> Petr Pikal
> petr.pikal at precheza.cz
> 
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