> On May 3, 2016, at 4:13 PM, Yasir Suhail <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Dear R developers and users,
>
> Consider the object :
>
>> a <- data.frame(a=c(1,2), b=c(2,3), c=c("a,b","c,d"), stringsAsFactors = F)
>> a$c <- strsplit(a$c, ",")
You are the one who should "consider the object". Look at what strsplit(a$c,
",") returns and then perhaps re-consider trying to assign it to a single
column.
>
> Re-assignment works fine for columns 1 and 2, but fails for column 3. If a
> is a valid object, the assignment should work.
>
>> a[,1] <- a[,1]
>> a[,2] <- a[,2]
>> a[,3] <- a[,3]
> Warning message:
> In `[<-.data.frame`(`*tmp*`, , 3, value = list(c("a", "b"), c("c", :
> provided 2 variables to replace 1 variables
>
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And please reconsider also the format of your postings.
>
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