Good one. When I saw this thread beginning to lengthen, I thought: "Ask an unanswerable question and you get philosophy."
Jim On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 6:10 PM Rui Barradas <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt> wrote: > > Hello, > > Inline. > > > Às 22:03 de 16/01/20, Mark Leeds escreveu: > > I nominate the last sentence of Rolf's comment as a fortune. > > Second. > > > Rui Barradas > > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 3:48 PM Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz > > <mailto:r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz>> wrote: > > > > > > On 17/01/20 1:55 am, Rui Barradas wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > What column and what list? > > > Please post a reproducible example, see the link at the bottom of > > this > > > mail and [1], [2], [3]. > > > > > > [1] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/reprex/index.html > > > [2] > > > > > > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example > > > > > > > > [3] https://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve > > > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > The OP should note that lists in general *do not have* columns. Data > > frames (which are a special case of lists) do have columns. > > > > Lists have "*entries*" or "components". It is important to get your > > terminology right and to understand the concepts that you are dealing > > with. Slap-dash hammer and hope is a recipe for disaster, especially > > in R. > > > > cheers, > > > > Rolf Turner > > > > -- > > Honorary Research Fellow > > Department of Statistics > > University of Auckland > > Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org <mailto:R-help@r-project.org> mailing list -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.