[R] rbind: number of columns of result is not a multiple of vector length (arg 1)

jim holtman jholtman at gmail.com
Wed Feb 18 04:16:31 CET 2009


You could 'split' the dataframe and then write out each element: something like

x <- split(data.info, data.info$station.id)
for (i in names(x)) write.csv(x[[i]], file=paste(i, ".csv", sep=""))

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:11 PM, CJ Rubio <cjrubio at kongju.ac.kr> wrote:
>
> it works perfectly!!!! thank you for your help....
>
> what if i want to seperate each stations data and save in a .csv file??
> while i'm asking you these i'm also finding some ways to do so..
>
> thank you again.
>
>
>
>
>
> jholtman wrote:
>>
>> try using:
>>
>> data.info <- rbind(data.info, cbind(station.id, year, date,
>> max.discharge))
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:26 PM, CJ Rubio <cjrubio at kongju.ac.kr> wrote:
>>>
>>> i have the following constructed and running very well,, thanks to Gabor
>>> Grothendieck for his help.
>>>
>>>>data.info <- c("station.id", "year", "date", "max.discharge")
>>>>
>>>> for(i in 1:num.files) {
>>> + station.id <- substring(data[i], 1,8)
>>> + DF <- read.table(data[i], sep=",", blank.lines.skip = TRUE)
>>> + z <- zoo(DF[,4], as.Date(as.character(DF[,3]), "%m/%d/%Y"))
>>> + f <- function(x) time(x) [which.max(x)]
>>> + ix <- tapply(z, floor(as.yearmon(time(z))),f)
>>> + year <- (1988:2005)
>>> + date <- time(z[ix])
>>> + max.discharge <- coredata(z[ix])
>>> + data.info <- rbind(data.info, c(station.id, year, date, max.discharge))
>>> + }
>>>
>>> my problem with my code occurs in the part where I arrange my results..
>>> after running this code, i get this warning:
>>>
>>> Warning message:
>>> In rbind(data.info, c(station.id, year, date, max.discharge)) :
>>>  number of columns of result is not a multiple of vector length (arg 1)
>>>
>>>
>>> i can't figure out what to do to produce the result i wanted:
>>> (for each station, it should look like this:)
>>>
>>> data.info     "station.id"     "year"       "date"      "max.discharge"
>>>                   "01014000"     1988   "1988-11-07"       4360
>>>                   "01014000"     1989   "1989-05-13"     20000
>>>                   "01014000"     1990   "1990-10-25"       9170
>>>                   "01014000"     1991   "1991-04-22"     12200
>>>                   "01014000"     1992   "1992-03-29"     11800
>>>                    ....
>>>                   "01014000"     2005   "2005-04-04"     22100
>>>
>>> thanks in advence for your help..
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Jim Holtman
>> Cincinnati, OH
>> +1 513 646 9390
>>
>> What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
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