Yup, DailyDiary[[1]] did it, thanks! On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Jeff Newmiller [via R] < ml-node+s789695n3903955...@n4.nabble.com> wrote:
> You haven't provided a reproducible example. You haven't even provided a > subset of your data, or the commands you used to read it in. > I might guess that > > VAL <- DailyDiary[[1]] > > might be what you wanted, and the "str" function might help you understand > why. Also, the "c" function does not "coerce" object types... it embeds the > arguments into a new vector. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... > DCN:<[hidden email] <http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=3903955&i=0>> > Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... > Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing > Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with > /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > > jawbonemurphy <[hidden > email]<http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=3903955&i=1>> > wrote: > > I have a related question...I have a data frame similar with 74 rows that I > > created with "header=TRUE", but when I try to coerce one of the data frame > columns into a vector, it shows up as having length 1, even though when I > print it, it shows 74 elements: > > > VAL <- c(DailyDiary[1]) > > VAL > > [1] 3 3 3 2 3 3 4 4 3 3 2 1 1 4 3 3 2 3 3 2 2 3 3 3 1 2 2 > [28] 1 1 3 3 3 2 4 3 2 3 4 3 3 3 3 4 3 2 3 2 3 1 2 1 2 3 1 > [55] 0 3 2 4 3 1 2 3 1 1 1 4 3 2 1 2 3 3 3 2 > >length(VAL) > [1] 1 > > On the other hand, I can easily coerce the row names to a vector of length > 74 > > > partf <- row.names(DailyDiary) > > length(partf) > [1] 74 > > What I would like to do is make VAL into a vector with length 74 instead of > > length 1 so I can sort it using use "partf" as factors. I tried > "as.vector", but it doesn't let you specify the length. Any ideas? Thanks, > and sorry if I'm being unclear or stupid, I'm a newbie :) > > Logan > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Length-of-data-frame-column-tp864585p3903892.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _____________________________________________ > > [hidden email] <http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=3903955&i=2>mailing > list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > [hidden email] <http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=3903955&i=3>mailing > list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > ------------------------------ > If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion > below: > > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Length-of-data-frame-column-tp864585p3903955.html > To unsubscribe from Length of data.frame column, click > here<http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_code&node=864585&code=amR1cmxhbmRzdGVyQGdtYWlsLmNvbXw4NjQ1ODV8MTg1MjIxNzE3OQ==>. > > -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Length-of-data-frame-column-tp864585p3903963.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
