What package is all this from()? You might check if there is a special rbind/cbind method provided. I don't think you can easily change the behavior of c()
Michael On Nov 17, 2011, at 4:43 PM, Henri-Paul Indiogine <hindiog...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings! > > I loose all my metadata after concatenating corpora. This is an > example of what happens: > >> meta(corpus.1) > MetaID cid fid selfirst selend fname > 1 0 1 11 2169 2518 WCPD-2001-01-29-Pg217.scrb > 2 0 1 14 9189 9702 WCPD-2003-01-13-Pg39.scrb > 3 0 1 14 2109 2577 WCPD-2003-01-13-Pg39.scrb > > .... > .... > > 17 0 1 114 17863 18256 WCPD-2007-04-30-Pg515.scrb > > >> meta(corpus.2) > MetaID cid fid selfirst selend fname > 1 0 2 2 11016 11600 DCPD-200900595.scrb > 2 0 2 6 19510 20098 DCPD-201000636.scrb > 3 0 2 6 23935 24573 DCPD-201000636.scrb > > .... > .... > > 94 0 2 127 16225 17128 WCPD-2009-01-12-Pg22-3.scrb > > >> tot.corpus <- c(corpus.1, corpus.2) >> meta(tot.corpus) > > MetaID > 1 0 > 2 0 > 3 0 > > .... > .... > > 111 0 >> > > This is from the structure of corpus.1 > > ..$ MetaData:List of 2 > .. ..$ create_date: POSIXlt[1:1], format: "2011-11-17 21:09:57" > .. ..$ creator : chr "henk" > ..$ Children: NULL > ..- attr(*, "class")= chr "MetaDataNode" > - attr(*, "DMetaData")='data.frame': 17 obs. of 6 variables: > ..$ MetaID : num [1:17] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ... > ..$ cid : int [1:17] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ... > ..$ fid : int [1:17] 11 14 14 17 46 80 80 80 91 91 ... > ..$ selfirst: num [1:17] 2169 9189 2109 8315 9439 ... > ..$ selend : num [1:17] 2518 9702 2577 8881 10102 ... > ..$ fname : chr [1:17] "WCPD-2001-01-29-Pg217.scrb" > "WCPD-2003-01-13-Pg39.scrb" "WCPD-2003-01-13-Pg39.scrb" > "WCPD-2004-05-17-Pg856.scrb" ... > - attr(*, "class")= chr [1:3] "VCorpus" "Corpus" "list" > > > Any idea on what I could do to keep the metadata in the merged corpus? > > Thanks, > Henri-Paul > > > -- > Henri-Paul Indiogine > > Curriculum & Instruction > Texas A&M University > TutorFind Learning Centre > > Email: hindiog...@gmail.com > Skype: hindiogine > Website: http://people.cehd.tamu.edu/~sindiogine > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.