Cannot use transform to square the values of a column

[bsouthwood]

Hello I have a float column in my DataFrame and I can't use "*" to multiply 2 columns together. I can however use "+".

leg[:gi]
DataArrays.DataArray{Float64,1}:

This fails.

leg = @Transform(leg, gi_sq = :gi * :gi)
MethodError: * has no method matching *(::Array{Float64,1}, ::Array{Float64,1})

This works

leg = @Transform(leg, gi_sq = :gi + :gi)

[tshort]

I'm not at a computer to double-check, but I think you want elementwise multiplication (.*) rather than *.

Also, please quote your code that uses macros, otherwise the GitHub user named @transform will be bothered.

[ellisvalentiner]

using Datasets
iris = datasets("datasets", "iris")
@transform(iris, sepal_length_sq = :SepalLength .* :SepalLength)

works fine. I suggest closing this issue.