On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Ulrike Grömping <groemp...@bht-berlin.de> wrote: > Dear developeRs, > > I have just discovered a strange feature when assigning some values to > columns of a data frame: The column is matched by partial matching (as > documented), but when assigning a value, a new column with the partial name > is added to the data frame that is identical to the original column except > for the changed value. Is that intentional ? An example:
Note that the lack of partial matching when performing assignment is also documented. See second last paragraph in Details section of ?Extract ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
