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

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Sun Aug 2 18:10:05 CEST 2009 

Thanks. It does indeed fix the problem that I did not know existed.  
May I inquire what is really happening? The help page for utils:: edit  
suggests to me that the dataframe is being sent to "vi" ( == "vim" on  
my installation),  but that certainly does not look like a vim window.

-- 
David.

On Aug 2, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

> 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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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT

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