Hello R developers.
I encountered the same problem as Uwe Ligges with as.matrix.data.frame()
in bug reports 3229 and 3242 - under section not-reproducible.
Example I have is:
> tmp
level 2100-D
1 biological_process unknown NA
2 cellular process -5.88
3 development -8.42
4 physiological process -6.55
5 regulation of biological process NA
6 viral life cycle NA
> str(tmp)
`data.frame': 6 obs. of 2 variables:
$ level : Factor w/ 6 levels "biological_..",..: 1 2 3 4 5 6
$ 2100-D_mean:`data.frame': 6 obs. of 1 variable:
..$ 2100-D: num NA -5.88 -8.42 -6.55 NA NA
> as.matrix.data.frame(tmp)
Error in as.matrix.data.frame(tmp) : dim<- : dims [product 6] do not
match the length of object [7]
The error associated with this is comming up at the end of function
as.matrix.data.frame where it is used:
dim(X) <- c(n, length(X)/n)
?dim says
'dim' has a method for 'data.frame's, which returns the length of
the 'row.names' attribute of 'x' and the length of 'x' (the
numbers of "rows" and "columns").
This part is ok. The problem is with X, which is "intensively"
modified through the function. Before this (dim(X) <- ...) call
X in my case is:
> x <- tmp
> "code from as.matrix.data.frame down to dim(X) <- ..."
> X
[[1]]
[1] "biological_process unknown"
[[2]]
[1] "cellular process"
[[3]]
[1] "development"
[[4]]
[1] "physiological process"
[[5]]
[1] "regulation of biological process"
[[6]]
[1] "viral life cycle"
[[7]]
[1] NA -5.88 -8.42 -6.55 NA NA
So we can see, that X is somehow destroyed - the first and second
column of tmp differ. For dim command this should really be one
long vector. So the problem lies in line
X <- unlist(X, recursive = FALSE, use.names = FALSE)
where it should be
X <- unlist(X, recursive = TRUE, use.names = FALSE)
^^^^
I have checked source code for that function from R as well as
in R-devel sources. I was not succesfull in reproducing the above
with the data frame bellow though. It did not report any problems
with old as.matrix.data.frame. There must be some trick with
first column in my data. So I am quite sure my suggestion is
OK.
tmp1 <- data.frame(level=c("A A", "B B"), x=c(NA, -5.8))
--
Lep pozdrav / With regards,
Gregor GORJANC
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University of Ljubljana
Biotechnical Faculty URI: http://www.bfro.uni-lj.si
Zootechnical Department email: gregor.gorjanc <at> bfro.uni-lj.si
Groblje 3 tel: +386 (0)1 72 17 861
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Slovenia
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