I think that a simple statement mentioning the issue in the documentation of fix() would be helpful.
regards Simone On 5/9/07, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 9 May 2007, Simone Giannerini wrote: > > > My concern here is that users can be confused from the fact that if one > has > > a single time series fix() uses the default method of edit() and does > not > > change > > its class > > > >> x <- ts(1:5) > >> fix(x) > >> class(x) > > [1] "ts" > > > > whereas for mts objects edit.data.frame is used so that in my opinion it > > might be worth to clarify it in the documentation. > > Which documentation do you suggest? That vectors and matrices are treated > differently is there. > > > > > Regards > > > > Simone > > > > On 5/9/07, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Why did you expect otherwise?: fix() is treating it as matrix and > >> ?edit.matrix says that it only works on 'simple data frames' (and > converts > >> matrices to such). > >> > >> Editing R objects can easily change aspects of them, as dput() is not > >> faithful, environments can get lost and so on. > >> > >> On Wed, 9 May 2007, Simone Giannerini wrote: > >> > >> > Dear all, > >> > > >> > it looks like fix() changes the class of mts objects, here is a > >> reproducible > >> > example (tested both on WinXP and Linux): > >> > > >> >> x <- ts(cbind(1:5,1:5)) > >> >> x > >> > Time Series: > >> > Start = 1 > >> > End = 5 > >> > Frequency = 1 > >> > Series 1 Series 2 > >> > 1 1 1 > >> > 2 2 2 > >> > 3 3 3 > >> > 4 4 4 > >> > 5 5 5 > >> >> class(x) > >> > [1] "mts" "ts" > >> >> edit(x) > >> > Series 1 Series 2 > >> > [1,] 1 1 > >> > [2,] 2 2 > >> > [3,] 3 3 > >> > [4,] 4 4 > >> > [5,] 5 5 > >> >> class(x) > >> > [1] "mts" "ts" > >> >> fix(x) > >> >> class(x) > >> > [1] "matrix" > >> >> x > >> > Series 1 Series 2 > >> > [1,] 1 1 > >> > [2,] 2 2 > >> > [3,] 3 3 > >> > [4,] 4 4 > >> > [5,] 5 5 > >> > > >> >> R.version > >> > _ > >> > platform i386-pc-mingw32 > >> > arch i386 > >> > os mingw32 > >> > system i386, mingw32 > >> > status > >> > major 2 > >> > minor 5.0 > >> > year 2007 > >> > month 04 > >> > day 23 > >> > svn rev 41293 > >> > language R > >> > version.string R version 2.5.0 (2007-04-23) > >> > > >> >> R.version > >> > platform x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu > >> > arch x86_64 > >> > os linux-gnu > >> > system x86_64, linux-gnu > >> > status > >> > major 2 > >> > minor 5.0 > >> > year 2007 > >> > month 04 > >> > day 23 > >> > svn rev 41293 > >> > language R > >> > version.string R version 2.5.0 (2007-04-23) > >> > > >> > ______________________________________________________ > >> > > >> > Simone Giannerini > >> > Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche "Paolo Fortunati" > >> > Universita' di Bologna > >> > Via delle belle arti 41 - 40126 Bologna, ITALY > >> > Tel: +39 051 2098262 Fax: +39 051 232153 > >> > ______________________________________________________ > >> > > >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >> > > >> > ______________________________________________ > >> > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > >> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > >> > > >> > >> -- > >> Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > >> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > >> 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > >> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > >> > > > > > > > > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > -- ______________________________________________________ Simone Giannerini Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche "Paolo Fortunati" Universita' di Bologna Via delle belle arti 41 - 40126 Bologna, ITALY Tel: +39 051 2098262 Fax: +39 051 232153 ______________________________________________________ [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
