! Look after character !
From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
You too have not give an reproducible example!
! Yes, I was not able to do it from my data. But bellow is one. It is
! a stupid one, but it works. The problem is use of as.data.frame in
! tmp1$L <- as.data.frame(tmp$L). This looks like to produce a corrupted
! data.frame. If I use just tmp1$L <- tmp$L, write.table and
! as.matrix.data.frame works OK. I still think that mine proposal can
! give benefit, since it works also on corrupted data frames.
data(warpbreaks)
tmp <- as.data.frame(tapply(breaks, list(wool, tension), mean))
tmp1 <- data.frame(level=rownames(tmp))
tmp1$L <- as.data.frame(tmp$L)
write.table(tmp1)
Error in as.matrix.data.frame(x) : dim<- : dims [product 2] do not match the
length of object [3]
tmp1$L <- tmp$L
write.table(tmp1)
"level" "L"
"1" "A" 44.55556
"2" "B" 28.22222
If you have a corrupt data frame, the function may fail, which is what
happened in the PR# you quote.
Please note: you should not be calling as.matrix.data.frame, but as.matrix.
! I called it because I had problems with write.table and that function
! calls as.matrix.data.frame.
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Gorjanc Gregor wrote:
> 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
I think you have a data frame column in a data frame, and that cannot be
made directly into a matrix. It's the steps that got you here that are
the problem.
>> 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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