Thank you all for pointing out the name of the variables.. I do apologize for not catching that,..
have a good day, Jean On Fri, 20 May 2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Fri, 20 May 2005, Jean Eid wrote: > > > Hi all, hope you having a nice day, > > > > I ahve this weird results with identical (probably I am not understanding > > correctly what it does ...) > > Why should > > a data frame with colunns pub_id faminc90 > a data frame with colunns pub_id faminc > > be considered identical()? Its description is > > The safe and reliable way to test two objects for being _exactly_ > equal. > > and those are not equal in a critical way. > > > I have these two data frames and I issue : > >> identical(temp, temp1) > > [1] FALSE > > > > > > However, these data frames are Nx2 and when I issue: > >> identical(temp[,2], temp1[,2]) > > [1] TRUE > >> identical(temp[,1], temp1[,1]) > > [1] TRUE > > > > and the results from str > > > > > >> str(temp) > > `data.frame': 7072 obs. of 2 variables: > > $ pub_id : int 10000 1000 10001 10002 10003 10004 10005 10006 10007 > > $ faminc90: int -2 5998 19900 43000 35000 40000 56538 61000 36000 39105 > >> str(temp1) > > `data.frame': 7072 obs. of 2 variables: > > $ pub_id: int 10000 1000 10001 10002 10003 10004 10005 10006 10007 10008 > > $ faminc: int -2 5998 19900 43000 35000 40000 56538 61000 36000 39105 > > > > The question is why are the objects different. How else can I tell what is > > the difference > > -- > 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 > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
