Thanks Brian,
I am not sure why the user who ran into this problem was using
as.data.frame(theColumn, nm=theName)
but it may have been an attempt to make a data.frame with a
variable for a column name, which is a pain when calling data.frame.
It also is faster, but I doubt that was the reason:
> system.time(for(i in 1:1e4)data.frame(x=log(seq_len(100))))
user system elapsed
1.06 0.00 1.06
> system.time(for(i in 1:1e4)as.data.frame(log(seq_len(100))))
user system elapsed
0.62 0.00 0.63
> system.time(for(i in 1:1e4)as.data.frame(log(seq_len(100)), nm="x"))
user system elapsed
0.17 0.00 0.17
Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk]
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 6:25 AM
> To: Bert Gunter
> Cc: William Dunlap; r-devel@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Rd] as.data.frame.character lacks nm= argument
>
> 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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