> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Dalgaard [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 10:56 AM
> To: William Dunlap
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Rd] cbind(deparse.level=2,...) problems
>
> William Dunlap wrote:
> > Should the deparse.level=2 argument to cbind
> > and rbind be abandoned? It is minimally documented,
> > not used in any CRAN package, and causes some problems.
>
> Bill,
>
> This code has been touched by Brian quite recently. Try again with a
> current r-devel checkout. (Specifically, later than r51007).
>
> -p
Yes, those problems have been fixed in the most
recent r-devel.
Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
>
> > E.g.,
> >
> > (a) If a matrix input has row names but not column names
> > cbind(deparse.level=2,...) stops.
> >
> m<-matrix(11:14,nrow=2,ncol=2,dimnames=list(Row=c("R1","R2"),C
ol=charact
> > er()))
> >> cbind(m, 101:102, deparse.level=2)
> > Error in cbind(m, 101:102, deparse.level = 2) :
> > SET_STRING_ELT() can only be applied to a 'character
> vector', not a
> > 'NULL'
> >
> > (b) If no argument is tagged then deparse.level=2
> > makes no column names, while deparse.level=1 makes
> > names for for the simple cases (where the argument
> > is a name):
> >> x<-1:3
> >> cbind(x, 11:13, deparse.level=1)
> > x
> > [1,] 1 11
> > [2,] 2 12
> > [3,] 3 13
> >> cbind(x, 11:13, deparse.level=2)
> > [,1] [,2]
> > [1,] 1 11
> > [2,] 2 12
> > [3,] 3 13
> >
> > (If one argument is tagged, teens=11:13, then
> > deparse.level=2 will name columns that
> > deparse.level=1 will not, like x+1, which I
> > think is the intended behavior.)
>
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