Re: [Rd] Assignment of individual values to data frame columns: intentional or unintentional behavior?

2010-09-02 Thread Peter Ehlers
On 2010-08-05 12:14, Ulrike Grömping wrote: Gabor Grothendieck schrieb: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Ulrike Grömping groemp...@bht-berlin.de wrote: Dear developeRs, I have just discovered a strange feature when assigning some values to columns of a data frame: The column is matched by

[Rd] Assignment of individual values to data frame columns: intentional or unintentional behavior?

2010-08-05 Thread Ulrike Grömping
Dear developeRs, I have just discovered a strange feature when assigning some values to columns of a data frame: The column is matched by partial matching (as documented), but when assigning a value, a new column with the partial name is added to the data frame that is identical to the

Re: [Rd] Assignment of individual values to data frame columns: intentional or unintentional behavior?

2010-08-05 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Ulrike Grömping groemp...@bht-berlin.de wrote: Dear developeRs, I have just discovered a strange feature when assigning some values to columns of a data frame: The column is matched by partial matching (as documented), but when assigning a value, a new column

Re: [Rd] Assignment of individual values to data frame columns: intentional or unintentional behavior?

2010-08-05 Thread Ulrike Grömping
Gabor Grothendieck schrieb: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Ulrike Grömping groemp...@bht-berlin.de wrote: Dear developeRs, I have just discovered a strange feature when assigning some values to columns of a data frame: The column is matched by partial matching (as documented), but when

Re: [Rd] Assignment of individual values to data frame columns: intentional or unintentional behavior?

2010-08-05 Thread Michael Lachmann
Ulrike Grömping wrote: However, given the documentation that partial matching is not used on the left-hand side, I would have expected even more that the assignment sw$Fert[1] - 10 works differently, because I am using it on the left-hand side. Probably, extraction ([1]) is done