Message-ID: <Xns9A60612DE4A26dNOTwinscomcast@80.91.229.13>
Date: 2008-03-13T13:33:01Z
From: David Winsemius
Subject: type of object of a variable in a data frame
Chang Liu <changisme at hotmail.com> wrote in
news:BAY144-W56113AA5B8B59D44C17F37BE080 at phx.gbl:
> 3. The reason I want it to be a list or vector, is that I want to
> fill in some blank values, i can't seem to do things like:
> data$V1[1] = 3 Is it because these variables are pointers? Is there
> a better way to do this?
>
You have not given reproducible code, so it is difficult to know why that
does not succeed. I have a data.frame with a similar name left over from
another problem. When I enter DATA$V1[1] = -.5 , it has the desired
effect. Although it is not the source of the error, you should learn to
use "<-" rather than "=". You should also learn to post questions with
reproducible code.
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David Winsemius