[Rd] write.csv problems
Hello, All:
I'm getting strange errors with write.csv with some objects of class
c('findFn', 'data.frame'). Consider the following:
df1 <- data.frame(x=1)
class(df1) <- c('findFn', 'data.frame')
write.csv(df1, 'df1.csv')
# Error in x$Package : $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors
df2 <- data.frame(a=letters[1:2],
b=as.POSIXct('2024-06-28'))
class(df2) <- c('findFn', 'data.frame')
write.csv(df2, 'df1.csv')
# Error in tapply(rep(1, nrow(x)), xP, length) :
# arguments must have same length
"write.csv" works with some objects of class c('findFn',
'data.frame') but not others. I have 'findFn' object with 5264 rows that
fails with the following error:
Error in `[<-.data.frame`(`*tmp*`, needconv, value = list(Count =
c("83", :
replacement element 1 has 526 rows, need 5264
I have NOT yet been able to reproduce this error with a smaller
example. However, starting 'write.csv' with something like the following
should fix all these problems:
if(is.data.frame(x)) class(x) <- 'data.frame'
Comments?
Thanks for all your work to help improve the quality of statistical
software available to the world.
Spencer Graves
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Re: [Rd] write.csv problems
В Fri, 28 Jun 2024 11:02:12 -0500
Spencer Graves пишет:
> df1 <- data.frame(x=1)
> class(df1) <- c('findFn', 'data.frame')
> write.csv(df1, 'df1.csv')
> # Error in x$Package : $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors
Judging by the traceback, only data frames that have a Package column
should have a findFn class:
9: PackageSummary(xi)
8: `[.findFn`(x, needconv)
7: x[needconv]
6: lapply(x[needconv], as.character)
5: utils::write.table(df1, "df1.csv", col.names = NA, sep = ",",
dec = ".", qmethod = "double")
write.table sees columns that aren't of type character yet and tries to
convert them one by one, subsetting the data frame as a list. The call
lands in sos:::`[.findFn`
if (missing(j)) {
xi <- x[i, ]
attr(xi, "PackageSummary") <- PackageSummary(xi)
class(xi) <- c("findFn", "data.frame")
return(xi)
}
Subsetting methods are hard. For complex structures like data.frames,
`[.class` must handle all of x[rows,cols]; x[rows,]; x[,cols];
x[columns]; x[], and also respect the drop argument:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2021-December/473207.html
I think that the `[.findFn` method mistakes x[needconv] for
x[needconv,] when it should instead perform x[,needconv].
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Best regards,
Ivan
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