Sorry for being unclear: the example works fine on my machine too. However,
with the much larger dataset (dim(50000,108)) I get the reported error.

Mathijs

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Scott Chamberlain <
scttchamberla...@gmail.com> wrote:

>  Works fine on my machine:
> > DF
>    A B    C D E
> 1  1 a 1999 0 0
> 2  1 b 1999 0 0
> 3  1 c 1999 0 0
> 4  1 d 1999 0 0
> 5  2 c 2001 0 1
> 6  2 d 2001 1 0
> 7  3 a 2004 1 0
> 8  3 b 2004 0 1
> 9  3 d 2004 1 1
> 10 4 b 2001 0 2
> 11 4 c 2001 1 1
> 12 4 d 2001 1 2
>
>
> here's my session info:
>
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] phyloch_1.4.48   XML_3.2-0        colorspace_1.0-1 phangorn_1.3-1
> ape_2.6-2
> [6] quadprog_1.5-3   plyr_1.4
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] gee_4.13-16     grid_2.12.1     lattice_0.19-17 nlme_3.1-97
> tools_2.12.1
>
> On Friday, February 25, 2011 at 8:31 AM, mathijsdevaan wrote:
>
>
> Hi, I am running the following script for a different (much larger data
> frame):
>
> DF = data.frame(read.table(textConnection(" A B C D E
> 1 1 a 1999 1 0
> 2 1 b 1999 0 1
> 3 1 c 1999 0 1
> 4 1 d 1999 1 0
> 5 2 c 2001 1 0
> 6 2 d 2001 0 1
> 7 3 a 2004 0 1
> 8 3 b 2004 0 1
> 9 3 d 2004 0 1
> 10 4 b 2001 1 0
> 11 4 c 2001 1 0
> 12 4 d 2001 0 1"),head=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE))
> DF<-DF[order(DF$B,DF$C),]#order by developer_id and year
> f<- function(x)
> {
> unlist(lapply(x, FUN = function(z) cumsum(z) - z))
> }
> DF<-cbind(DF[,c(1:3)],ave(DF[, c(4:5)],DF$B, FUN = f))
>
> I get the following error:
>
> Error in `[<-.data.frame`(`*tmp*`, i, , value = integer(0)) :
> replacement has 0 items, need 37597770
> In addition: Warning message:
> In max(i) : no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf
>
> The dimensions of the data frame are (50000,108), so the last line of the
> script becomes:
>
> DF<-cbind(DF[,c(1:3)],ave(DF[, c(4:108)],DF$B, FUN = f))
>
> Any idea how to solve this problem? Thanks!
>
>
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