Dear John,
Thanks a lot for the time you spent on my problem. I don't believe you
can do something to avoid this kind of problem.
I don't know if it is technically possible but I wonder if when we load
Rcmdr plug-ins from the Rcmdr menu, it wouldn't be possible during the
restart of Rmcdr to detach the package used by Rcmdr in order to load
them after the packages used by the plug-ins in order to at least avoid
to break Rmcdr (in breaking I mean to prevent from using Rcmdr functions
like recode (from car) in my example).
Regards,
Alain
On 15-Jun-10 21:37, John Fox wrote:
Dear Alain,
-----Original Message-----
From: Alain Guillet [mailto:alain.guil...@uclouvain.be]
Sent: June-15-10 12:25 PM
To: John Fox
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Problem with the recode function
I found out what the problem is: when I start R Commander, some plug-ins
are automatically loaded and it seems that the problem comes from the
RcmdrPlugin.Export, more precisely from the Hmisc package (the plug-in
depends on it) which contains a recode() function too with the following
documentation :
That makes sense of the problem, but I'm not sure what I can about it --
that is, there's always the possibility that someone will load a package
that shadows a function in another package. I'll think some more about the
problem.
Best,
John
Hmisc-internal package:Hmisc R Documentation
Internal Hmisc functions
Description:
Internal Hmisc functions.
Details:
These are not to be called by the user or are undocumented.
Alain
On 15-Jun-10 17:53, John Fox wrote:
Dear Alain,
I'm afraid that I can't duplicate your problem. First, there is no
recode
function in the Rcmdr package; it uses recode from car.
Here's a record of my Rcmdr session, using the recode dialog to generate
the
recode command:
test$variable<- recode(test$x, '1:5=0; else=1; ',
as.factor.result=TRUE)
test # entered in script window
x variable
1 1 0
2 2 0
3 3 0
4 4 0
5 5 0
6 6 1
7 7 1
8 8 1
9 9 1
10 10 1
I noticed that you set as.factor.result=TRUE for one command and FALSE
for
the other, but both work for me. It occurred to me that you may have
entered
the recode command in the script window and executed it from there, but
that
works for me too.
Best,
John
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John Fox
Senator William McMaster
Professor of Social Statistics
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
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On
Behalf Of Alain Guillet
Sent: June-15-10 10:58 AM
To: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: [R] Problem with the recode function
Hello,
I am using the recode() function in Rcmdr and the result is not what I
expect so I am almost sure I did something wrong but what...
> test<- data.frame(x=1:10)
> library(car)
> recode(test$x,'1:5=0 ; else=1', as.factor.result=TRUE)
[1] 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
Levels: 0 1
BUT
> library(Rcmdr) # recode from the car package is now masked
Now I recode test$x through the Rmcdr interface and I get the following
code :
test$variable<- recode(test$x, '1:5 = 0; else = 1; ',
as.factor.result=FALSE)
And a vector of NA as result.
> test$variable
[1] NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
I am using R 2.11.1 with Rcmdr 1.5-5 on Windows Vista.
Regards,
Alain
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Statistician and Computer Scientist
SMCS - IMMAQ - Université catholique de Louvain
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Voie du Roman Pays, 20
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium
tel: +32 10 47 30 50
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