[R] Recursive indexing failed at level 2

[Jim Hargreaves]

On 06/26/2010 02:07 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> 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.
Doh!

Working as intended now, thanks very much for your help!

Regards,
Jim Hargreaves
>
> 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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