Re: [O] [PATCH] -for review- Tangling with variable transfer of variables

[Rainer M Krug]

"Charles C. Berry" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, 23 Jun 2014, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>
>> One more question concerning the variable transfer of tables:
>>
>> ,----
>> |    (let ((file (orgtbl-to-tsv value '(:fmt org-babel-R-quote-tsv-field)))
>> |          (header (if (or (eq (nth 1 value) 'hline) colnames-p)
>> |                      "TRUE" "FALSE"))
>> |          (row-names (if rownames-p "1" "NULL")))
>> |      (if (= max min)
>> |          (format "%s <- local({
>> |                         con <- textConnection(
>> |                           %S
>> |                         )
>> |                         res <- read.table(
>> |                           con,
>> |                           header    = %s,
>> |                           row.names = %s,
>> |                           sep       = \"\\t\",
>> |                           as.is     = TRUE
>> |                         )
>> |                         close(con)
>> |                         res
>> |                         })" name file header row-names)
>> |        (format "%s <- local({
>> |                        con <- textConnection(
>> |                          %S
>> |                        )
>> |                        res <- read.table(
>> |                          con,
>> |                          header    = %s,
>> |                          row.names = %s,
>> |                          sep       = \"\\t\",
>> |                          as.is     = TRUE,
>> |                          fill      = TRUE,
>> |                          col.names = paste(\"V\", seq_len(%d), sep =\"\")
>> |                        )
>> |                        close(con)
>> |                        res
>> |                        })" name file header row-names max))))
>> `----
>>
>> It seems that the two variable transfer routines only differ slightly:
>>
>> 1. routine: =header= is present (TRUE) and defined in table when passed
>> as =colnames= while
>>
>> 2. routine: =header= is not present (FALSE) and =colnames= is generated
>> as V1 .. Vn
>>
>> This generation is actually not needed as this is the R default value
>> which is used when =colnames= is not supplied.
>>
>> Also: I do not undestand why the argument =fill= is TRUE in the second
>> routine. From R:
>>
>> ,----
>> |     fill: logical. If ‘TRUE’ then in case the rows have unequal length,
>> |           blank fields are implicitly added.  See ‘Details’.
>> `----
>>
>> If I understands tables in org correctly, this is not needed as the rows
>> always have equal length?
>>
>> so if I am not mistaken the following lines could be deleted:
>>
>> ,----
>> |                            row.names = %s,
>> |                            sep       = \"\\t\",
>> |                            as.is     = TRUE,
>> | -                          fill      = TRUE,
>> | -                          col.names = paste(\"V\", seq_len(%d), sep =\"\")
>> `----
>>
>> Or am I missing something here?
>
> You need not pass a table - this
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC R :var x='(1 2 3)(4 5))

I always forget that there are other objects wich can be passed from org
to R.

>
> will produce a data.frame with two rows with is.na(x[2,2]) being TRUE.
>
>
> Re col.names, from help("read.table")
>
>       The number of data columns is determined by looking at the first
>       five lines of input (or the whole file if it has less than five
>       lines), or from the length of 'col.names' if it is specified and
>       is longer.  This could conceivably be wrong if 'fill' or
>       'blank.lines.skip' are true, so specify 'col.names' if necessary
>       (as in the 'Examples').
>
>
> This block
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC R :var x=(append (make-vector 10 '(1 2)) '((1 2 3)))
> x
> #+END_SRC
>
> makes an 11 by 3 data.frame with all(is.na(x[,1:10]))
>
> but taking away the col.names arg will cause it to make a 12 by 2 
> data.frame with x[12,1]==3 and is.na(x[12,2]).
>
> so leave the col.names as is, I think.

I will - promised.
 
>
> Without fill, read.table will throw an error in that block

This is true for these cases - I was only thinking about tables which
can be passed to R

Thanks,

Rainer

>
> Chuck
>
> [rest deleted]
>

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