Message-ID: <3D6260B7.40A9A1CC@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 2002-08-20T15:31:03Z
From: Uwe Ligges
Subject: t() converts data.frames ind matrix
Jan Malte Wiener wrote:
>
> hi,
> i just recognized that the t() function converts a data frames into a
> matrix (R 1.5). is that a bug or a feature ?
It's a feature. You cannot transpose a data.frames, so implicitly you
convert the data.frame to a matrix and transpose that matrix! See code
of t.data.frame().
Uwe Ligges
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