sure - any idea where should I look for this? I pretty much copied this line
https://github.com/JuliaStats/DataFrames.jl/blob/master/src/deprecated.jl#L34 for my collectFields function. On 12 June 2014 16:18, John Myles White <[email protected]> wrote: > Certainly seems like a bug. A PR fixing this would be very helpful. > > At some point I’d like to move the functions for converting Dict’s to > DataFrames out of the DataFrames package since there’s so many ways to do > it that it’s hard for me to keep track of them. > > — John > > On Jun 12, 2014, at 8:15 AM, Florian Oswald <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > I found some strange behaviour and am trying to find out where I'm going > wrong. I have a dict that stores several vectors of equal length, and I > want to make a DataFrame from it, where the columns should have the names > of the dict keys: > > using DataFrames > > function collectFields(dict::Dict) > di_keys = collect(keys(dict)) > cols = [ dict[k] for k in di_keys ] > cnames = Array(Symbol,length(dict)) > for i in 1:length(di_keys) > cnames[i] = symbol(di_keys[i]) > end > return DataFrame(cols, cnames) > end > > di = ["a"=>[1,3],"b"=>[0.0,1.0]] > collectFields(di) > > This works as expected: > > collectFields(di) > 2x2 DataFrame > |-------|---|-----| > | Row # | a | b | > | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | > | 2 | 3 | 1.0 | > > however, changing the type of the vectors in dict: > > di2 = ["a"=>[1,3],"b"=>[0,1]] > > > julia> collectFields(di2) > 2x2 DataFrame > |-------|-------|----| > | Row # | x1 | x2 | > | 1 | [1,3] | a | > | 2 | [0,1] | b | > > > Any ideas? thanks! > > >
