On Sun, 14 Nov 2010, Feng Mai wrote:
ncol is not an argument for as.matrix()
Perhaps this is more than Alexx wanted to know, but ...
Things can get a wee bit tricky when the function is a 'generic'.
More precisely:
'ncol' is not an argument for any method for as.matrix() that is on
your search path.
as.matrix(x,...) is an S3 generic function. try
methods( as.matrix )
and you will see what methods are available for it. And some do have
arguments other than 'x':
args( as.matrix.data.frame )
function (x, rownames.force = NA, ...)
NULL
If you wanted to (but you don't, this is just didactic) you could make a
method that accepts the ncol arg for a particular class
as.matrix.columned <- function(x,ncol=1) matrix(x,ncol=ncol)
x <- 1:3
class(x) <- 'columned'
as.matrix(x, ncol=3)
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 1 2 3
HTH,
Chuck
Alexx Hardt <mikrowelle1234 <at> gmx.de> writes:
Hi,
can someone tell me why x is still a 2x1-matrix in the last step?
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