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Reputation: 1479

dplyr frame_data errors with "Columns are not all same length"

When I copy and paste the example from the Help page, this works OK:

dplyr::frame_data( 
   ~Club, ~Compensation,
   "a",   1,
   "b",   2
)

Yet when I try to input my own data I get the error "Columns are not all same length". 

dplyr::frame_data( 
   ~A,    ~B,
   "NY",  "ABc"
)

What the heck am I doing wrong? Here's another example with 2 rows of data:

soccer <- dplyr::frame_data( 
   ~A,   ~B,    ~C,        ~D,   ~E,    ~E2,
   "NY", "ABc", "Anatole", "BB", 50000, 50000,
   "NY", "CDe", "Saad",    "D",  60000, 73750
)

Upvotes: 4

Views: 774

Answers (1)

mpalanco
mpalanco

Reputation: 13570

In dplyr 0.4.3 frame_data does not build rectangular tables, when nrows != ncols. You can check more examples here. That is why you get those errors. For instance this is ok:

dplyr::frame_data( 
  ~A,    ~B,
  "NY",  "ABc",
  "NY", "ABC"
)

Output: 

Source: local data frame [2 x 2]

      A     B
  (chr) (chr)
1    NY   ABc
2    NY   ABC

Apparently this issue has been fixed for the next version:

frame_data() properly constructs rectangular tables. (#1377, @kevinushey)

Upvotes: 5

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