I am merging two data frames: tuneAcc <- structure(list(select = c(FALSE, TRUE), method = structure(c(1L, 1L), .Label = "GCV.Cp", class = "factor"), RMSE = c(29.2102056093962, 28.9743318817886), Rsquared = c(0.0322612161559773, 0.0281713457306074), RMSESD = c(0.981573768028697, 0.791307778398384), RsquaredSD = c(0.0388188469162352, 0.0322578925071113)), .Names = c("select", "method", "RMSE", "Rsquared", "RMSESD", "RsquaredSD"), class = "data.frame", row.names = 1:2)
finalTune <- structure(list(select = TRUE, method = structure(1L, .Label = "GCV.Cp", class = "factor"), Selected = "*"), .Names = c("select", "method", "Selected"), row.names = 2L, class = "data.frame") using merge(x = tuneAcc, y = finalTune, all.x = TRUE) The error is "Error in match.arg(method) : 'arg' must be NULL or a character vector" This is R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21), Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit), Running under: OS X 10.11.5 (El Capitan). <some digging> These do not stop execution: merge(x = tuneAcc, y = finalTune) merge(x = tuneAcc, y = finalTune, all.x = TRUE, sort = FALSE) The latter produces (what I consider to be) incorrect results. Walking through the code, the original call with just `all.x = TRUE` fails when sorting at the line: res <- res[if (all.x || all.y) do.call("order", x[, seq_len(l.b), drop = FALSE]) else sort.list(bx[m$xi]), , drop = FALSE] Specifically, on the `do.call` bit. For these data: Browse[3]> x select method RMSE Rsquared RMSESD RsquaredSD 2 TRUE GCV.Cp 28.97433 0.02817135 0.7913078 0.03225789 1 FALSE GCV.Cp 29.21021 0.03226122 0.9815738 0.03881885 Browse[3]> x[, seq_len(l.b), drop = FALSE] select method 2 TRUE GCV.Cp 1 FALSE GCV.Cp and this line executes: Browse[3]> order(x[, seq_len(l.b), drop = FALSE]) [1] 1 2 3 4 although nrow(x) = 2 so this is an issue. Calling it this way stops execution: Browse[3]> do.call("order", x[, seq_len(l.b), drop = FALSE]) Error in match.arg(method) : 'arg' must be NULL or a character vector Thanks, Max ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.