Re: [R] How to switch off accepting the shortcut of column names

2007-10-30 Thread Julian Burgos
You cannot call a column on a dataframe using the first letter (or first few letters) if the letters match more than one name. Extraction methods for data frames allow partially matching row names, but if the result is undefined you get NULL in return. Try this. >first_item <- seq(1,10) >

Re: [R] How to switch off accepting the shortcut of column names

2007-10-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
If you had updated your R before posting (as the posting guide suggested) you would have found such an option under ?options. It was new in R 2.6.0. On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, P. Olsson wrote: > Dear R-users, > > currently I am working with the R version 2.4.1. > I realized it has a feature, which

[R] How to switch off accepting the shortcut of column names

2007-10-30 Thread P. Olsson
Dear R-users, currently I am working with the R version 2.4.1. I realized it has a feature, which might be wonderful (as so many things in R), but in this case might be a bit dangerous as well. It seems that columns of a data frame can be called just by indicating the first letter of the name of