Message-ID: <x2u2xkikej.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>
Date: 1999-01-21T17:51:48Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: Pairlist & Dataframe
In-Reply-To: Ennapadam Venkatraman's message of Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:29:07 -0500
Ennapadam Venkatraman <venkat at biosta.mskcc.org> writes:
> Is this a feature/bug or am I missing something:
>
> R : Copyright 1999, The R Development Core Team
> Version 0.63.2 (January 12, 1999)
> ......
>
> > ls()
> character(0)
> > x <- NULL
> > x$x1 <- rnorm(10)
> > x$x2 <- rnorm(10)
> > mode(x)
> [1] "pairlist"
> > as.data.frame(x)
> Error: can't coerce pairlist into a data.frame
This is a bug. Pairlists shouldn't show up in "normal" usage. The
workaround is to start off with x<-list() instead.
Cc'ed to r-bugs (Congratulations, that makes PR#100, I believe...)
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