[R] Recursive indexing failed at level 2

[Duncan Murdoch]

Jim Hargreaves wrote:
> Hi Duncan, list,
>
> Thanks for the advice, but unfortunately that wasn't what was causing my 
> problem. I'm still getting the "Recursive indexing failed at level 2" 
> message even after replacing my unlist(pulse[i]) with pulse[[i]].
>   

Read the second part of my first message, which explains the error.  You 
had two errors in the original expression, and have only fixed one.

Duncan Murdoch
> Error:
>
>  > 
> pulse_subset[[1:as.numeric(length(pulse[[i]][as.numeric(peak_start[i]):as.numeric(peak_end[i])]))]] 
> <- pulse[[i]][as.numeric(peak_start[i]):as.numeric(peak_end[i])]
> Error in 
> pulse_subset[[1:as.numeric(length(pulse[[i]][as.numeric(peak_start[i]):as.numeric(peak_end[i])]))]] 
> <- pulse[[i]][as.numeric(peak_start[i]):as.numeric(peak_end[i])] :
>    recursive indexing failed at level 2
>
> It's almost as if the length of pulse[[i]] is too small, but it's length 
> is 1001 and peak_start[i] and peak_end[i] are 192 and 208 respectively.
>
> Also why would the problem crop up only after 200,000 runs?
>
> Bizarre!
>
> Regards,
> Jim Hargreaves
>
>
>
> On 06/26/2010 01:38 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>   
>> On 26/06/2010 8:29 AM, Jim Hargreaves wrote:
>>     
>>> On 06/26/2010 01:20 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On 26/06/2010 7:53 AM, Jim Hargreaves wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Dear fellow R users,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am replacing elements of a list like so:
>>>>>
>>>>> pulse_subset[[1:20]]=unlist(pulse[i])[1:20]
>>>>>           
>>>> If pulse is a list, then pulse[i] is also a list, with one element.  
>>>> I think you want pulse[[i]], which extracts element i.
>>>>         
>>> Ahh, I specified pulse[i] has >20 values in my original mail. 
>>>       
>> But that could not be correct.  Take a look at length(pulse[i]).  
>> Assuming that i is a scalar value, length(pulse[i]) will be 1.  You 
>> really do want pulse[[i]].   You used unlist(pulse[i]) which is 
>> sometimes the same as pulse[[i]], but it really depends on what 
>> pulse[[i]] is.  unlist() is a very crude tool, and you should avoid it 
>> unless you really need it.
>>
>>
>>     
>>> Basically pulse is a list 1000 elements long, with each element in 
>>> pulse having between 1000 and 2000 elements of it's own. Pulse is a 
>>> list of lists.   Also as far as I am aware, [[ ]]'s should only be 
>>> used when assigning values to elements of a list/vector.
>>>       
>> Whoever told you that was mistaken.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>     
>>> unlist(pulse[1]) gives x1, x2, x3, x4, x5 etc. etc.
>>>       
>>>> If pulse_subset is a list, then pulse_subset[[1:20]] is equivalent 
>>>> to pulse_subset[[1]][[2]][[3]][[4]] ... [[20]], i.e. the syntax 
>>>> implies that it is a list containing a list etc, nested 20 levels 
>>>> deep.  The error message is telling you that it's not.  I'm not sure 
>>>> what your intention is in this case.
>>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>>         
>>>>> where pulse is a list of lists, and pulse [i] has >20 values.
>>>>>
>>>>> This gives the error "Recursive Indexing failed at level 2". But, 
>>>>> interestingly this instruction is part of a loop which has gone 
>>>>> through about 200,000 iterations before giving this error.
>>>>>
>>>>> Actual code:
>>>>>       
>>>>> pulse_subset[[1:(length(unlist(pulse[i])[as.numeric(peak_start[i]):as.numeric(peak_end[i])]))]] 
>>>>> <- unlist(pulse[i])[as.numeric(peak_start[i]):as.numeric(peak_end[i])]
>>>>>
>>>>> Error in 
>>>>> pulse_subset[[1:(length(unlist(pulse[i])[as.numeric(peak_start[i]):as.numeric(peak_end[i])]))]] 
>>>>> <- 
>>>>> unlist(pulse[i])[as.numeric(peak_start[i]):as.numeric(peak_end[i])] :
>>>>>    recursive indexing failed at level 2
>>>>>
>>>>> If anyone could shed some light I'd be rather grateful.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Jim Hargreaves
>>>>>
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