Hi
Thank you all for your input. But I must apologize. When I was searching the
help page I went this far and stopped
Logic {base} R Documentation
Logical Operators
Description
These operators act on raw, logical and number-like vectors.
Usage
! x
x & y
x && y
x | y
x || y
xor(x, y)
isTRUE(x)
Arguments
x, y
raw or logical or ‘number-like’ vectors (i.e., of types double (class numeric),
integer and complex)), or objects for which methods have been written.
At that point I took a look at train_indices and it was indeed a vector of
integers, so directed my inquiry to the list.
After reading the answers it was fairly obvious I had missed something, and in
the details is
Numeric and complex vectors will be coerced to logical values, with zero
being false and all non-zero values being true. Raw vectors are handled
without any coercion for !, &, | and xor, with these operators being
applied bitwise (so ! is the 1s-complement).
I was truly lax in my search of the documentation
Again, thank for you for your time and expertise, I will try to be more
complete in my research in the future
Carl Sutton
On Sunday, April 16, 2017 1:00 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net>
wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2017, at 5:18 PM, Carl Sutton via R-help <r-help@r-project.org>
> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
>
> I normally use package data.table but today was doing some base R coding.
> Had a problem for a bit which I finally resolved. I was attempting to
> separate a data frame between train and test sets, and in base R was using
> the "!" to exclude training set indices from the data frame. All I was
> getting was zero observations. Changed to using "-" and it worked. I
> recalled that in data.table the "!" function worked, so created this little
> bit of code.
>
> # Base R Functions
> str(mtcars)
> train_indices <- sample(nrow(mtcars), round(0.75*nrow(mtcars)))
> train <- mtcars[train_indices,]
> mode(train_indices); class(train_indices)
> test <- mtcars[!train_indices,] # the "!" function returning 0 observations
The arguments you are supplying:
> table( !train_indices )
FALSE
24
> test_1 <- mtcars[-train_indices,]
> identical(test, test_1)
>
> # Using data.table package
> library(data.table)
> dt1 <- data.table(mtcars)
> train_indices <- sample(nrow(dt1), round(0.75*nrow(dt1)))
> train <- dt1[train_indices,]
The data.table "[" function has very different syntax and evaluation rules than
does the data.frame "[" function, but I guess you know that.
> mode(train_indices); class(train_indices)
> test <- dt1[!train_indices,] # the "!" function
> test_1 <- dt1[-train_indices,]
> identical(test, test_1)
> The documentation appears to me to accept "!" in base, so do I have some kind
> of ridiculous error or ..??
Not sure about "ridiculous" and you have not actually said what it was that
_you_ were questioning.
If it is the lack of any return from `test <- mtcars[!train_indices,]` than it
could be argued that was a ridiculous expectation at least according to the
rules of vector evaluation in row selection that I thought I understood. Giving
a vector of FALSE values to `[.data.frame` would not reasonably be expected to
return anything. Whether giving a vector of only FALSE's to `[.data.table` and
actually getting something back does seem kind of unexpected to me, but clearly
it didn't seem ridiculous to Matt Dowle. Clearly the recycling rules for
`[.data.table are different than those of `[.data.frame`. Data.tables don't use
rownames.
The results from:
> dt1[rep(FALSE,24), ]
Error in `[.data.table`(dt1, rep(FALSE, 24), ) :
i evaluates to a logical vector length 24 but there are 32 rows. Recycling of
logical i is no longer allowed as it hides more bugs than is worth the rare
convenience. Explicitly use rep(...,length=.N) if you really need to recycle.
... is different than from
dt1[!train_indices, ] # get 8 rows.
To me that doesn't make sense.
I generally use %in% for row selection. But many people would also find this
pair of results "ridiculous":
> mtcars[ which( train_indices %in% 50:100), ]
[1] mpg cyl disp hp drat wt qsec vs am gear carb
<0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)
> mtcars[ -which( train_indices %in% 50:100), ] # bad idea to use minus
> before which()
[1] mpg cyl disp hp drat wt qsec vs am gear carb
<0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)
Yes, I know that some people think the `which` is not needed. I'm not one of
them.
--
David.
> Carl Sutton
>
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