Hi Joseph, On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Joseph Voelkel <[email protected]> wrote: > I just obtained the latest release of data.table, and immediately went to > see what’s new. The help on := was just what I was looking for. It cleared > up things nicely for me, the RHS/LHS issue was very helpful, and the > examples were the usual good stuff--simple, and they get a variety of ideas > across succinctly. > > > > Minor note: > > DT[a>"A",b:=d*2L] # subassign to b using d where a>"A" > > does not work: a is a factor, not character.
This is on the hit list: https://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1491&group_id=240&atid=978 -steve -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Weill Medical College of Cornell University Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact _______________________________________________ datatable-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/datatable-help
