[R] Reshaping a table

Bert Gunter gunter.berton at gene.com
Thu Apr 11 18:25:27 CEST 2013


Yes. My error was previously pointed out to me and there was further
offlist discussion. Maybe I should have kept it onlist, but I was
reticent about displaying my stupidity. :(  Mea Culpa.

Cheers,
Bert

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:11 AM, S Ellison <S.Ellison at lgcgroup.com> wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> Here's the relevant portion of the as.table Help file:
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> But ... is an argument to table(), not to as.table; this part of the help file is not referring to as.table.
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> The first argument to as.table is x, which is an 'arbitrary R object'. as.table is a generic; it depends on the existence of a method for the object in question.
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> On looking at the code, as.table.default does not include handling for a data frame; only for tables and for things that are either arrays or numeric. Data frames are none of those things, so as.table says it can;t handle them.
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> The help file doesn't say what as.table doesn't do, perhaps because the list would be quite long. It would have headed off this post, though, if it mentioned that the default method accepted only a table, array, or numeric.
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> S Ellison
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