On 13/09/2012 21:48, Bert Gunter wrote:
Bill:
as.data.frame.character() has no nm, argument, so providing one causes
the error as you can see from the code. Presumably, this is what you
meant by bug/inconsistency, right?
This is using an undocumented argument, 'nm'. I don't believe anything
is said about what might happen if you do that except that it will be
passed to methods -- they are not obliged to accept it.
If it were intended for this to be a feature, I think the author might
have chosen a less opaque name than 'nm'.
Where we go from here is under discussion in R-core.
-- Bert
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:32 PM, William Dunlap <wdun...@tibco.com> wrote:
Is the following behavior with as.data.frame(nm=...) a bug? It is an
inconsistency:
as.data.frame(LETTERS[1:10], nm="FirstTenLetters")
Error in as.data.frame.vector(x, ..., nm = nm) :
formal argument "nm" matched by multiple actual arguments
nm= works for integer arguments:
as.data.frame(1:10, nm="OneToTen")
OneToTen
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 6
7 7
8 8
9 9
10 10
Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
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