Dear baseRs,
I recently made a mistake when renaming data frame columns, accidentally
creating an NA column. I found the following strange behavior when negative
indexes are used.
Can anyone explain what happens here. No "workarounds" required, just curious.
Dieter
Version: Windows, R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26)
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df = data.frame(a=0:10,b=10:20)
df[,-2] #ok
names(df)=c("A") # implicitly creates an NA column
df[,-2]
df[,-2,drop=FALSE] # has nothing to do with drop
df3 = data.frame(a=0:10,b=10:20,c=20:30)
df3[,-2] #ok
names(df3)=c("A","B") #creates an NA column
df3[,-2] # error
# Error in `[.data.frame`(df3, , -2) : undefined columns selected
names(df3)[3]="NaN" # another reserved word
df3[,-2] # no problem
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