Re: [R] Re storing a UPDATES on a data.frame

2008-02-17 Thread savanna3000
Thank you Prof Brian, this really solved my problem and it was well explained :) Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > Well > > - MASS is a package and not a library > - it is not 'base' but 'contributed', and as library(help=MASS) says, > support software for a book. It is on CRAN. > - Packages wit

Re: [R] Re storing a UPDATES on a data.frame

2008-02-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Well - MASS is a package and not a library - it is not 'base' but 'contributed', and as library(help=MASS) says, support software for a book. It is on CRAN. - Packages with namespaces are read-only, so you have not changed the data frame in MASS, and even for other packages you can only change

[R] Re storing a UPDATES on a data.frame

2008-02-16 Thread savanna3000
Hello everyone, Can anyone tell me how do I restore data in a data.frame provided by base R libraries (MASS) ? I uninstalled R then installed it again and I still see the new changes I made!!!??? (eg. whiteside$Temp=1 ==> 1 overwrote all the rows, I want the old values :( !! Please HELP! --