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

Simon Urbanek simon.urbanek at r-project.org
Sun Aug 2 18:36:10 CEST 2009 

On Aug 2, 2009, at 12:10 , David Winsemius wrote:

> 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.
>

edit is a generic function (see the doc) - in your case you want to  
read rather ?edit.data.frame which is implemented differently  
depending on the GUI used allowing a spreadsheet-like interface.

Cheers,
Simon

@Tracy: what you were probably looking for is the fix() function

>
> 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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