The error is in printing ... foo <- data.frame(I(z))
works. It is not hard to create a data frame you cannot print, and this is one. It could be considered a bug in format.AsIs, which calls toString without removing its class. Traceback() helps: 14: format.AsIs(x, ...) 13: format(x, ...) 12: as.character.POSIXt(1199386325.312) 11: as.character(1199386325.312) 10: paste(x, collapse = ", ") 9: toString.default(x[[i]], width = width, ...) 8: toString(x[[i]], width = width, ...) 7: format.AsIs(x[[i]], ..., justify = justify) 6: format(x[[i]], ..., justify = justify) 5: format.data.frame(x, digits = digits, na.encode = FALSE) 4: as.matrix(format.data.frame(x, digits = digits, na.encode = FALSE)) 3: print(as.matrix(format.data.frame(x, digits = digits, na.encode = FALSE)), ..., quote = quote, right = right) 2: print.data.frame(list(z = c(1199386325.312, 1199386325.312, 1199386325.312, 1199386325.312, 1199386325.312))) 1: print(list(z = c(1199386325.312, 1199386325.312, 1199386325.312, 1199386325.312, 1199386325.312))) On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Bert Gunter wrote: >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.6.1 Patched (2007-12-03 r43574) > i386-pc-mingw32 > > locale: > LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United > States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United > States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 > > attached base packages: > [1] grDevices datasets stats graphics grid tcltk utils > [8] methods base > > ## ... + other packages.. > >> z <- rep(Sys.time(),5) >> data.frame(z) > z > 1 2008-01-03 10:19:43 > 2 2008-01-03 10:19:43 > 3 2008-01-03 10:19:43 > 4 2008-01-03 10:19:43 > 5 2008-01-03 10:19:43 > >> data.frame(I(z)) > Error: evaluation nested too deeply: infinite recursion / > options(expressions=)? > > ## I don't have a clue. Any words of wisdom would be appreciated. > > Bert Gunter > Genentech > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- 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-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.