I am just posting this to the list because someone else may one day waste an
hour or so because s/he has unknowingly hit a partial match failure using "$".
It's my folly that I did but I am surprised that options(warnPartialMatchDollar
= TRUE) isn't the default setting.
Here's a bit of reproducible code that shows the challenge.
#rm(list=ls()) ### BEWARE: me making sure environment was clean
set.seed(12345) # get fully reproducible example
nRows <- 100
Sample <- sample(0:1,nRows,replace=TRUE)
data2 <- data.frame(cbind(1:nRows,Sample)) # create data frame
table(data2$Samp) # call which silently achieves partial match
data2$innoccuousname <-
factor(data2$Samp,labels=c("Non-clinical","Clinical"),levels=0:1)
str(data2$Samp) # all fine, no apparent destruction of the non-existent vector
data2$Samp
data2$SampFac <-
factor(data2$Samp,labels=c("Non-clinical","Clinical"),levels=0:1)
str(data2$Samp) # returns NULL because there is no longer a single partial
match to "Samp" but no warning!
str(data2$Sample) # but of course, data2$Sample is still there
Because I had used "data2$Samp" all the way through a large file of R (markup)
code and hadn't noticed that the variable names in the SPSS file I was reading
in had changed from "Samp" to "Sample" I appeared to be destroying data2$Samp.
I have now set options(warnPartialMatchDollar = TRUE) in my Rprofile.site file
and am just posting this here in case it helps someone some day.
Very best all,
Chris
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