> Hilmar Berger
> on Sat, 14 Sep 2019 13:31:27 +0200 writes:
> Dear all,
> I did some more tests regarding the == operator in Ops.data.frame (see
> below). All tests done in R 3.6.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32).
> I find that errors are thrown also when comparing a zero length
> data.frame to atomic objects with length>0 which should be a valid case
> according to the documentation. This can be traced to a check in the
> last line of Ops.data.frame which tests for the presence of an empty
> result value (i.e. list() ) but does not handle a list of empty values
> (i.e. list(logical(0))) which in fact is generated in those cases.
> There is a simple fix (see also below).
I'm pretty sure what you write above is wrong: For some reason
you must have changed more in your own version of Ops.data.frame :
Because there's a line
value <- unlist(value, ...)
there, value is *not* list(logical(0)) there, but rather logical(0)
and then indeed, your proposed line change (at the end of Ops.data.frame)
has no effect for the examples you give.
Note also that your analysis -- treating all 0-extent data
frames or matrices the same -- is very incomplete.
A 0 x 0 matrix is not the same as a 0 x 1 matrix etc, and
similar for data frames.
Here's an extended "testing" script which takes into account
some of the above :
##---
d0 <- data.frame(a = numeric(0)) # zero length data.frame
d00 <- unname(d0) # zero length data.frame __without names__
d3 <- data.frame(a=1:3) # non-empty data.frame
d30. <- d3[,FALSE] # 3 x 0 -- take into account, too !
d30 <- unname(d30.)
m01. <- matrix(,0,1, dimnames=list(NULL,"a")) # 0 x 1 matrix with dimnames
m01 <- unname(m01.)
m00. <- matrix(,0,0, dimnames=list(NULL,NULL)) # 0 x 0 matrix with dimnames
m00 <- unname(m00.)
m3 <- data.matrix(d3)
##
## error A:
## Error in matrix(if (is.null(value)) logical() else value, nrow = nr,
dimnames = list(rn, :
## length of 'dimnames' [2] not equal to array extent
d0 == 1 # error A
d00 == 1 # <0 x 0 matrix>
d30. == 1 # <3 x 0 matrix>
d30 == 1 # <3 x 0 matrix>
d3 == 1 # <3 x 1 matrix>
d0 == logical(0) # error A
d00 == logical(0) # <0 x 0 matrix>
d30. == logical() # <3 x 0 matrix>
d30 == logical() # <3 x 0 matrix>
d3 == logical(0) # error A
d0 == NULL # error A
d00 == NULL # <0 x 0 matrix>
d30. == NULL # <3 x 0 matrix>
d30 == NULL # <3 x 0 matrix>
d3 == NULL # error A
m00 == d0 # error A
m00 == d00 # <0 x 0 matrix>
m00 == d3 # error A
# 0-length matrix for comparison :
identical(m00., m00. == 1) ## 0 x 0 matrix *with* "invisible" dimnames [ NULL,
NULL ]
identical(m00., m00. == logical(0))
identical(m00., m00. == NULL)
identical(m00, m00 == 1) ## 0 x 0 matrix w/o dimnames
identical(m00, m00 == logical(0))
identical(m00, m00 == NULL)
## 0 x 1 -
identical(m01., m01. == 1) # < 0 x 1 matrix> *with* dimnames
identical(m01., m01. == logical(0)) # " " "
identical(m01., m01. == NULL) # " " "
identical(m01, m01 == 1) # < 0 x 1 matrix> w/o dimnames
identical(m01, m01 == logical(0)) # < 0 x 1 matrix>
identical(m01, m01 == NULL) # < 0 x 1 matrix>
##---
Best regards,
Martin
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