R-helpers,
Below is a simple example of some output that I am getting while trying to work
with a data frame in R 2.12.1 for Mac.
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> testdat <- data.frame(matrix(ncol=10, nrow=10))
> colnames(testdat) <- c('a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j')
> testdat[seq(1,10,3),] <- c(1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0)
> testdat
a b c d e f g h i j
1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
2 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
3 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
6 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
7 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
8 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
9 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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The output is not what I would have anticipated. Since seq(1,10,3) gives the
vector [1 4 7 10], I expected rows 1, 4, 7 and 10 of the data.frame "testdat"
to contain the same data, a 1 for variable 'a' and zeros for all other
variables. I guess I assumed the assigment would proceed by rows, but it
appears from the resulting output to be proceeding by columns. Can someone
point out how I can modify this simple code so that the assignments proceed by
rows?
Thank you.
Brant
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