I think you are mistaken. Please provide an example of how you used this function in any version of R that behaved as you describe. Also, please post in plain text to avoid the what-you-see-is-not-what-we-see feature that HTML email provides. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
On July 9, 2014 4:47:39 PM PDT, Janet Choate <jsc....@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi R community, >i created a function (mkdate) as follows: > >mkdate = function(x) { >x$date = as.Date(paste(x$year, x$month, x$day, sep="-")) >x$wy = ifelse(x$month >=10, x$year+1, x$year) >x$yd = as.integer(format(as.Date(x$date), format="%j")) >x$wyd = cal.wyd(x) >x >} > >the function results in adding the new columns date, wy, yd, and wyd to >the >table i apply it to. >this has always worked in R version 2.14.2. >however, in R version 3.1.0 - instead of my mkdate function adding >those >columns to my existing table, it just overwrites my table and leaves me >with just a list of the last variable created by my mkdate function. so >i >end up with just a list of numbers representing wyd, and lose all the >data >in my original table. > >does anyone know what would now be causing this to occur, and what i >need >to do to make my function work properly again? > >thank you for any assistance, >Janet > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >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. ______________________________________________ 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.