[R-SIG-Mac] A question I'm sure I should be able to answer myself

Sun Aug 2 16:36:17 CEST 2009

David,

this was fixed in the recent GUI as the thread you replied to says.  
Please update your GUI to 5450 or later.

Cheers,
Simon

On Aug 2, 2009, at 10:20 AM, David Winsemius wrote:

> I am not a regular user of that facility and cannot see that it has  
> much value over the facilities available in the console. Nontheless,  
> I can replicate the error, but not the hang behavior on a relatively  
> current 64 bit R installation run from the 64 bit GUI:
>
> > dput(data2)
> structure(list(Id02 = structure(c(1L, 2L, 3L, 3L), .Label = c("1.a",
> "2.b", "3.d"), class = "factor"), Area = c(10, 2, 3, 5)), .Names =  
> c("Id02",
> "Area"), row.names = c(NA, -4L), class = "data.frame")
>
> > edit(data2)
> # choosing the "+" icon in the edit window results in this message  
> in the GUI console window
> Error in edit.data.frame(data2) :
>  SET_VECTOR_ELT() can only be applied to a 'list', not a 'character'
>
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.9.1 Patched (2009-07-04 r48897)
> x86_64-apple-darwin9.7.0
>
> locale:
> en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] splines   stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets   
> methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] fortunes_1.3-6  MASS_7.2-46     chron_2.3-30    Design_2.1-2     
> survival_2.35-4 Hmisc_3.5-2
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] cluster_1.12.0  grid_2.9.1      lattice_0.17-25 tools_2.9.1
>
> -- 
> David Winsemius
>
> On Jul 29, 2009, at 5:53 PM, Tracy Lightcap wrote:
>
>> Friends:
>>
>> Here's what's happening. I load an environment with some of my  
>> datafiles then invoke edit on one of them for test purposes.
>>
>> > edit (pub09)
>>
>> Here's the file structure:
>>
>> > str(pub09)
>> 'data.frame':	50 obs. of  15 variables:
>> $ id        : int  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...
>> $ state     : Factor w/ 50 levels "AK","AL","AR",..: 2 1 4 3 5 6 7  
>> 8 9 10 ...
>> $ drug07    : num  0.537 0.185 0.733 0.666 0.948 0.406 0.375 1  
>> 0.686 0.408 ...
>> $ percapin06: int  26940 33257 27849 24829 34555 34437 44266 34123  
>> 32021 27988 ...
>> $ file06    : int  213284 24213 268126 210265 3287378 189415 407979  
>> 25034 1390031 360332 ...
>> $ gjjudges06: int  144 44 171 115 1922 150 180 24 554 197 ...
>> $ csi06     : num  39.8 32 49.6 49.4 59.5 ...
>> $ pop06     : int  4590 677 6166 2809 36250 4766 3496 853 18058  
>> 9342 ...
>> $ berkson06 : int  9 15 9 12 16 6 15 4 15 0 ...
>> $ ifin05    : int  3 4 1 3 2 2 4 4 2 1 ...
>> $ stafin05  : num  0.66 0.93 0.19 0.64 0.42 0.5 0.92 0.9 0.51  
>> 0.29 ...
>> $ pro05     : num  0.34 0.44 0.7 0.4 0.88 0.41 0.56 0.55 0.92  
>> 0.39 ...
>> $ work06    : num  1481 550 1568 1828 1710 ...
>> $ lpop06    : num  3.66 2.83 3.79 3.45 4.56 ...
>> $ newpro05  : num  34 44 70 40 88 41 56 55 92 39 ...
>>
>> I can add/delete rows using the icons with no problems in the  
>> editor. Attempting to add columns with the icons, however, results  
>> in this error message:
>>
>> Error in edit.data.frame(pub09)  :
>> SET_VECTOR_ELT() can only be applied to a 'list', not a 'character'
>>
>> Then R shows the beach ball and never resolves the difficulty. And  
>> it shows further strangeness: if the edit window is over the  
>> console, all text in the console below is erased. I end up having  
>> to force quit every time.
>>
>> This is only a bother; the datafile isn't affected nor the  
>> environment. Besides, I usually work on my data in a spreadsheet,  
>> then import. Still, if the editor is to be used for classes, I need  
>> to find out why this is happening. I'm guessing it is due to  
>> character strings in the datafile, but I can't be sure of that  
>> given the circumstances.
>>
>> Model: MacBookPro2,2, BootROM MBP22.00A5.B07, 2 processors, Intel  
>> Core 2 Duo, 2.33 GHz, 2 GB
>> R:  R 2.9.1 GUI 1.28 Tiger build 32-bit (5444)
>>
>> Hope I've given enough data to make the problem clear.
>>
>> Tracy Lightcap
>> Professor and Chair
>> Department of Political Science
>> LaGrange College
>> 601 Broad St.
>> LaGrange  GA  30240-2999
>> (O) tlightcap at lagrange.edu (H) altlamp at mindspring.com
>> 706.880.8226
>> www.lagrange.edu/academics/political-science/faculty/tlightcap.aspx
>>
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> David Winsemius, MD
> Heritage Laboratories
> West Hartford, CT
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