On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Tom La Bone wrote:
Gavin Simpson wrote:
It says that the two arguments have different numbers of observations.
The reason for which should now be pretty obvious as you provided a
single Date whereas airquality has 153 observations.
Thanks. I did look at ?transform but I was a bit confused because this
worked
data1 <- transform(airquality,LTMDA=T)
What is "T"? (If you mean 'TRUE', please say so, as "T" is a regular
variable.)
whereas this did not
data1 <- transform(airquality,Date=as.Date("1950-01-01"))
Why does the first one work with one argument but the second one does not?
A Date object is not a vector. In released versions of R, data.frame()
only knows how to replicate vectors and factors.
As Gavin pointed out, you were warned so why are you disregarding the
warning? That a subclass works does not mean that you are entitled to
leap to conclusions about another subclass, does it? Abductive inference
does not apply (it would be like useRs considering you to be always in
error based on your email address).
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