Friends: Here's what's happening. I load an environment with some of my datafiles then invoke edit on one of them for test purposes. > edit (pub09) Here's the file structure: > str(pub09) 'data.frame': 50 obs. of 15 variables: $ id : int 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... $ state : Factor w/ 50 levels "AK","AL","AR",..: 2 1 4 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... $ drug07 : num 0.537 0.185 0.733 0.666 0.948 0.406 0.375 1 0.686 0.408 ... $ percapin06: int 26940 33257 27849 24829 34555 34437 44266 34123 32021 27988 ... $ file06 : int 213284 24213 268126 210265 3287378 189415 407979 25034 1390031 360332 ... $ gjjudges06: int 144 44 171 115 1922 150 180 24 554 197 ... $ csi06 : num 39.8 32 49.6 49.4 59.5 ... $ pop06 : int 4590 677 6166 2809 36250 4766 3496 853 18058 9342 ... $ berkson06 : int 9 15 9 12 16 6 15 4 15 0 ... $ ifin05 : int 3 4 1 3 2 2 4 4 2 1 ... $ stafin05 : num 0.66 0.93 0.19 0.64 0.42 0.5 0.92 0.9 0.51 0.29 ... $ pro05 : num 0.34 0.44 0.7 0.4 0.88 0.41 0.56 0.55 0.92 0.39 ... $ work06 : num 1481 550 1568 1828 1710 ... $ lpop06 : num 3.66 2.83 3.79 3.45 4.56 ... $ newpro05 : num 34 44 70 40 88 41 56 55 92 39 ... I can add/delete rows using the icons with no problems in the editor. Attempting to add columns with the icons, however, results in this error message: Error in edit.data.frame(pub09) : SET_VECTOR_ELT() can only be applied to a 'list', not a 'character' Then R shows the beach ball and never resolves the difficulty. And it shows further strangeness: if the edit window is over the console, all text in the console below is erased. I end up having to force quit every time. This is only a bother; the datafile isn't affected nor the environment. Besides, I usually work on my data in a spreadsheet, then import. Still, if the editor is to be used for classes, I need to find out why this is happening. I'm guessing it is due to character strings in the datafile, but I can't be sure of that given the circumstances. Model: MacBookPro2,2, BootROM MBP22.00A5.B07, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.33 GHz, 2 GB R: R 2.9.1 GUI 1.28 Tiger build 32-bit (5444) Hope I've given enough data to make the problem clear. Tracy Lightcap Professor and Chair Department of Political Science LaGrange College 601 Broad St. LaGrange GA 30240-2999 (O) tlightcap at lagrange.edu (H) altlamp at mindspring.com 706.880.8226 www.lagrange.edu/academics/political-science/faculty/tlightcap.aspx
A question I'm sure I should be able to answer myself
2 messages · Tracy Lightcap, Simon Urbanek
Tracy, thanks, this should be fixed in tonight's R.app GUI, so please try the fixed R.app tomorrow. Thanks, Simon
On Jul 29, 2009, at 17:53 , Tracy Lightcap wrote:
Friends: Here's what's happening. I load an environment with some of my datafiles then invoke edit on one of them for test purposes.
edit (pub09)
Here's the file structure:
str(pub09)
'data.frame': 50 obs. of 15 variables: $ id : int 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... $ state : Factor w/ 50 levels "AK","AL","AR",..: 2 1 4 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... $ drug07 : num 0.537 0.185 0.733 0.666 0.948 0.406 0.375 1 0.686 0.408 ... $ percapin06: int 26940 33257 27849 24829 34555 34437 44266 34123 32021 27988 ... $ file06 : int 213284 24213 268126 210265 3287378 189415 407979 25034 1390031 360332 ... $ gjjudges06: int 144 44 171 115 1922 150 180 24 554 197 ... $ csi06 : num 39.8 32 49.6 49.4 59.5 ... $ pop06 : int 4590 677 6166 2809 36250 4766 3496 853 18058 9342 ... $ berkson06 : int 9 15 9 12 16 6 15 4 15 0 ... $ ifin05 : int 3 4 1 3 2 2 4 4 2 1 ... $ stafin05 : num 0.66 0.93 0.19 0.64 0.42 0.5 0.92 0.9 0.51 0.29 ... $ pro05 : num 0.34 0.44 0.7 0.4 0.88 0.41 0.56 0.55 0.92 0.39 ... $ work06 : num 1481 550 1568 1828 1710 ... $ lpop06 : num 3.66 2.83 3.79 3.45 4.56 ... $ newpro05 : num 34 44 70 40 88 41 56 55 92 39 ... I can add/delete rows using the icons with no problems in the editor. Attempting to add columns with the icons, however, results in this error message: Error in edit.data.frame(pub09) : SET_VECTOR_ELT() can only be applied to a 'list', not a 'character' Then R shows the beach ball and never resolves the difficulty. And it shows further strangeness: if the edit window is over the console, all text in the console below is erased. I end up having to force quit every time. This is only a bother; the datafile isn't affected nor the environment. Besides, I usually work on my data in a spreadsheet, then import. Still, if the editor is to be used for classes, I need to find out why this is happening. I'm guessing it is due to character strings in the datafile, but I can't be sure of that given the circumstances. Model: MacBookPro2,2, BootROM MBP22.00A5.B07, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.33 GHz, 2 GB R: R 2.9.1 GUI 1.28 Tiger build 32-bit (5444) Hope I've given enough data to make the problem clear. Tracy Lightcap Professor and Chair Department of Political Science LaGrange College 601 Broad St. LaGrange GA 30240-2999 (O) tlightcap at lagrange.edu (H) altlamp at mindspring.com 706.880.8226 www.lagrange.edu/academics/political-science/faculty/tlightcap.aspx
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