hey Keith,

Your solution is elegant because it delegates conversion to the column
push!, i.e.  push!{S,T}(dv::DataArray{S,1},v::T)

I have tested it, and it works for me too.  This is your code, so I
think you should get all the credit.

Gustavo
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Gustavo Lacerda
http://www.optimizelife.com


On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Keith Campbell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Gustavo,
>
> Below is a crack at a version that handles tuples and deals with some of the
> issues John raised.  You can see some simple tests at
> http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/catawbasam/003743259cf0a6ec968d.
>
> If you're interested in working it over for a pull request, please feel
> free.  If you'd like me to do it, I'd be happy to. And if this seems like
> the wrong approach, that's fine too.
> cheers,
> Keith
>
> import Base.push!
> function push!(df::DataFrame, iterable)
>     K = length(iterable)
>     assert(size(df,2)==K)
>     i=1
>     for t in iterable
>         try
>             #println(i,t, typeof(t))
>             push!(df.columns[i], t)
>         catch
>             #clean up partial row
>             for j in 1:(i-1)
>                 pop!(df.columns[j])
>             end
>             msg = "Error adding $t to column $i."
>             throw(ArgumentError(msg))
>         end
>         i=i+1
>     end
> end
>
>
> On Monday, June 9, 2014 11:14:24 PM UTC-4, Gustavo Lacerda wrote:
>>
>> OK, but first I want to make it work for heterogenous lists (tuples),
>> which is mysteriously failing.
>>
>> Gustavo
>>
>>
>> On Monday, June 9, 2014, John Myles White <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Would be good to clean this up by removing some of the slow parts (map
>> > usage, anonymous function usage) and have it submitted as a PR.
>> >  — John
>> >
>> > On Jun 9, 2014, at 1:17 PM, Keith Campbell <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Thanks for putting this togehter.
>> > Under 0.3 pre from yesterday, I get a deprecation warning in the Array
>> > version where df2 is assigned.  The tweak below appears to resolve that
>> > warning:
>> > function push!(df::DataFrame, arr::Array)
>> >     K = length(arr)
>> >     assert(size(df,2)==K)
>> >     col_types = map(eltype, eachcol(df))
>> >     converted = map(i -> convert(col_types[i][1], arr[i]), 1:K)
>> >     ## To do: throw error if convert fails
>> >     df2 = convert( DataFrame, reshape(converted, 1, K) )   # <==tweaked
>> >     names!(df2, names(df))
>> >     append!(df,df2)
>> > end
>> > On Monday, June 9, 2014 3:44:28 PM UTC-4, Gustavo Lacerda wrote:
>> >
>> > I've implemented this:
>> >
>> > function push!(df::DataFrame, arr::Array)
>> >     K = length(arr)
>> >     assert(size(df,2)==K)
>> >     col_types = map(eltype, eachcol(df))
>> >     converted = map(i -> convert(col_types[i][1], arr[i]), 1:K)
>> >     ## To do: throw error if convert fails
>> >     df2 = DataFrame(reshape(converted, 1, K))
>> >     names!(df2, names(df))
>> >     append!(df,df2)
>> > end
>> > X1 = rand(Normal(0,1), 10); X2 = rand(Normal(0,1), 10); X3 =
>> > rand(Normal(0,1), 10); Y = X1 - X2 + rand(Normal(0,1), 10)
>> > df = DataFrame(Y=Y, X1=X1, X2=X2, X3=X3)
>> > push!(df, [1,2,3,4])
>> >
>> > I tried to generalize it by replacing Array with Tuple.
>> >
>> > function push!(df::DataFrame, tup::Tuple)
>> >     K = length(tup)
>> >     assert(size(df,2)==K)
>> >     col_types = map(eltype, eachcol(df))
>> >     converted = map(i -> convert(col_types[i][1], tup[i]), 1:K)
>> >     ## To do: throw error if convert fails
>> >     df2 = DataFrame(reshape(converted, 1, K))
>> >     names!(df2, names(df))
>> >     append!(df,df2)
>> > end
>> > julia> df[:greeting] = "hello"
>> > "hello"
>> > julia> df
>> > 11x5 DataFrame
>> > |-------|-----------|-------------|-----------|------------|----------|
>> > | Row # | Y         | X1          | X2        | X3         | greeting |
>> > | 1     | 0.39624   | 0.163897    | -0.146526 | 0.592489   | "hello"  |
>> > | 2     | -0.236239 | -1.81627    | -0.726978 | 0.638524   | "hello"  |
>> > | 3     | -0.801656 | 0.000801096 | 0.543645  | -0.997613  | "hello"  |
>> > | 4     | -0.30888  | -0.166953   | 0.640827  | 1.53217    | "hello"  |
>> > | 5     | -0.662719 | -1.38129    | -0.194937 | 0.928446   | "hello"  |
>> > | 6     | 4.37102   | 2.22107     | -2.15648  | -0.703392  | "hello"  |
>> > | 7     | 0.0866397 | -0.633333   | -0.745456 | -0.0144429 | "hello"  |
>> > | 8     | 0.581942  | 1.24061     | -0.867256 | 0.283671   | "hello"  |
>> > | 9     | -3.15614  | -1.39045    | 1.34395   | 0.343224   | "hello"  |
>> > | 10    | -1.67029  | 0.634846    | 2.08062   | -0.845479  | "hello"  |
>> > | 11    | 1.0       | 2.0         | 3.0       | 4.0        | "hello"  |
>> >
>> > But then this happens:
>> > julia> push!(df, (1,2,3,4, "hi"))
>> > ERROR: no method convert(Type{Float64}, ASCIIString)
>> >  in setindex! at array.jl:305
>> >  in map_range_to! at range.jl:523
>> >  in map at range.jl:534
>> >  in push! at none:5
>> >
>> > It apparently tries to convert "hi" to Float64, even though the 5th type
>> > is ASCIIString:
>> > julia> col_types
>> > 1x5 DataFrame
>> > |-------|---------|---------|---------|---------|-------------|
>> > | Row # | Y       | X1      | X2      | X3      | label       |
>> > | 1     | Float64 | Float64 | Float64 | Float64 | ASCIIString |
>> >
>> > Gustavo
>> > P.S.  Should the code go here?
>>
>> --
>> --
>> Gustavo Lacerda
>> http://www.optimizelife.com

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