Thanks John,

On May 17, 2014, at 11:57 AM, John Myles White <[email protected]> wrote:

> In (1), you’re trying to put to insert multiple columns into a single column, 
> which means that you’re effectively inserting a column with 6 entries instead 
> of 3. The error message should probably be changed to note that the size 
> (rather than the length) is wrong. We could change the formula interface at 
> some point to allow “.” as an operator.

Clearly what I was trying to do was wrong and for readability it is probably 
better to be explicit with respect to column names in generating the df and 
model formula.

> Point (2) is intentional. There are a lot of options that control printing of 
> DataFrames and they need to be exposed better in the documentation. They’re 
> documented here for now: 
> https://github.com/JuliaStats/DataFrames.jl/blob/master/spec/show.md
> 
> The printing decision doesn’t depend on the structure of the DataFrame. It 
> only depends on whether or not the DataFrame could be printed to the screen 
> without spillover.

Will study the specs. On my retina display it often times uses less than half 
of terminal window width. But show(..., true) and showall(...) give me exactly 
what I was looking for!

Thanks again, regards,
Rob J. Goedman
[email protected]


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