Sorry to be posting another question, but my learning curve is starting to flatten some now. What am I missing here?> temp _ name[reis==toupper(location[order(Vgrablow2)][N])] > temp[1] "Lawton"> paste(temp,g)[1] "Lawton" # WHERE IS THE SECOND ELEMENT?> g[1] 0.29> a _ "Lawton" > paste(a,g)[1] "Lawton 0.29" # THIS WORKS (SECOND ELEMENT EXISTS ALSO)> mode(a)[1] "character"> mode(temp)[1] "character" # TEMP AND A ARE BOTH CHARACTERS> paste(temp,g,sep="---")[1] "Lawton" # DOESN'T EVEN GIVE THE SEPERATOR> paste(a,g,sep="---")[1] "Lawton---0.29" extraneous info:> mode(reis)[1] "character"> mode(location)[1] "character" Michaell Taylor -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Michaell Taylor <pols1oh at bestweb.net> writes:> Sorry to be posting another question, but my learning curve is starting to > flatten some now. > > What am I missing here? > > > temp _ name[reis==toupper(location[order(Vgrablow2)][N])] > > temp > [1] "Lawton" > > paste(temp,g) > [1] "Lawton" # WHERE IS THE SECOND ELEMENT? > > g > [1] 0.29 > > a _ "Lawton" > > paste(a,g) > [1] "Lawton 0.29" # THIS WORKS (SECOND ELEMENT EXISTS ALSO) > > mode(a) > [1] "character" > > mode(temp) > [1] "character" # TEMP AND A ARE BOTH CHARACTERS > > paste(temp,g,sep="---") > [1] "Lawton" # DOESN'T EVEN GIVE THE SEPERATOR > > paste(a,g,sep="---") > [1] "Lawton---0.29" > > > > extraneous info: > > > mode(reis) > [1] "character" > > mode(location) > [1] "character"Nothing obvious. We may have a bug and/or something odd sneaked into the "name" vector. What's the version info, btw? You could try dput(temp) a==temp -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Hi, My knowledge about R is somewhat limited but I had a bit similar problem with paste a month or so ago (you can search the topic ,,bug and paste'' or something similar in the archive). That time the problem seemed to be that I had read my data in as stata-file using read.dta, and seemed that it was a kind of bug in that function. The result was that the variables was stored into memory not correctly, an error which did not affect print() but did affect paste() (or have I misunderstood something?). The problem vanished if I saved the data with save() and read it again with load(). You did not explained how did you get your data but perhaps it helps. Sincerely, Ott Toomet --------------------------------------------------- On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Michaell Taylor wrote:> > Sorry to be posting another question, but my learning curve is starting to > flatten some now. > > What am I missing here? > > > temp _ name[reis==toupper(location[order(Vgrablow2)][N])] > > temp > [1] "Lawton" > > paste(temp,g) > [1] "Lawton" # WHERE IS THE SECOND ELEMENT? > > g > [1] 0.29 > > a _ "Lawton" > > paste(a,g) > [1] "Lawton 0.29" # THIS WORKS (SECOND ELEMENT EXISTS ALSO) > > mode(a) > [1] "character" > > mode(temp) > [1] "character" # TEMP AND A ARE BOTH CHARACTERS > > paste(temp,g,sep="---") > [1] "Lawton" # DOESN'T EVEN GIVE THE SEPERATOR > > paste(a,g,sep="---") > [1] "Lawton---0.29" > > > > extraneous info: > > > mode(reis) > [1] "character" > > mode(location) > [1] "character" > > > Michaell Taylor > -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- > r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html > Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" > (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ >-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._