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 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
