not off the top of my head, but if you provide a reproducible example
(cut and paste into R) then I may be able to help you.

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Bill Cunliffe <b...@elevationllc.net> wrote:
> I have the following data frames, avGain and retGain.  They have the same
> dimensions.
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> The following line of code replaces row j of avGain as desired:
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> avGain[j, ] <- mean( retGain[jStart:j, ] )
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> However, the following line does not work:
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> avGain[j, ] <- ( avGain[j-1, ] * ( DAYS - 1 ) + retGain[j, ] ) / DAYS
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> If I do the following, and test to see if a or b are data frames.
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> a <- mean( retGain[jStart:j, ] )
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> b <- ( avGain[j-1, ] * ( DAYS - 1 ) + retGain[j, ] ) / DAYS
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> I find that a is not, but b is indeed a data frame.  I guess this is part of
> my problem.
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> Does anyone know why one works and the other doesn't, and how I can replace
> a row of a data frame with another data frame?
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