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as_data_frame.matrix can't handle subclassed matrices #110

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tjmahr opened this issue Jun 28, 2016 · 6 comments
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as_data_frame.matrix can't handle subclassed matrices #110

tjmahr opened this issue Jun 28, 2016 · 6 comments
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tjmahr commented Jun 28, 2016

I was writing a tidier function with as_data_frame to convert a matrix generated by a model comparison function. The conversion appeared to work until tried to mutate the tibble. Then I got the error Error: matrix as column is not supported. I was able to trace the problem to how the columns in tibble retained their "matrix" class.

Here is an example using stats::poly, which also produces a subclassed matrix.

I decided to file an issue because this behavior is unexpected and because as.data.frame does work as expected.

library("dplyr", warn.conflicts = FALSE)
#> Warning: package 'dplyr' was built under R version 3.3.1
library("tibble")

poly(1:6, 3) %>% str
#>  poly [1:6, 1:3] -0.598 -0.359 -0.12 0.12 0.359 ...
#>  - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
#>   ..$ : NULL
#>   ..$ : chr [1:3] "1" "2" "3"
#>  - attr(*, "coefs")=List of 2
#>   ..$ alpha: num [1:3] 3.5 3.5 3.5
#>   ..$ norm2: num [1:5] 1 6 17.5 37.3 64.8
#>  - attr(*, "degree")= int [1:3] 1 2 3
#>  - attr(*, "class")= chr [1:2] "poly" "matrix"

poly(1:6, 3) %>% as_data_frame %>% mutate(Condition = "Test")
#> Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos): matrix as column is not supported

poly(1:6, 3) %>% as_data_frame %>% str
#> Classes 'tbl_df', 'tbl' and 'data.frame':    6 obs. of  3 variables:
#>  $ 1:Classes 'poly', 'matrix'  atomic [1:6] -0.598 -0.359 -0.12 0.12 0.359 ...
#>   .. ..- attr(*, "coefs")=List of 2
#>   .. .. ..$ alpha: num [1:3] 3.5 3.5 3.5
#>   .. .. ..$ norm2: num [1:5] 1 6 17.5 37.3 64.8
#>   .. ..- attr(*, "degree")= int [1:3] 1 2 3
#>  $ 2:Classes 'poly', 'matrix'  atomic [1:6] 0.546 -0.109 -0.436 -0.436 -0.109 ...
#>   .. ..- attr(*, "coefs")=List of 2
#>   .. .. ..$ alpha: num [1:3] 3.5 3.5 3.5
#>   .. .. ..$ norm2: num [1:5] 1 6 17.5 37.3 64.8
#>   .. ..- attr(*, "degree")= int [1:3] 1 2 3
#>  $ 3:Classes 'poly', 'matrix'  atomic [1:6] -0.373 0.522 0.298 -0.298 -0.522 ...
#>   .. ..- attr(*, "coefs")=List of 2
#>   .. .. ..$ alpha: num [1:3] 3.5 3.5 3.5
#>   .. .. ..$ norm2: num [1:5] 1 6 17.5 37.3 64.8
#>   .. ..- attr(*, "degree")= int [1:3] 1 2 3

# workaround
poly(1:6, 3) %>% as.data.frame %>% as_data_frame %>% mutate(Condition = "Test")
#> # A tibble: 6 x 4
#>            1          2          3 Condition
#>        <dbl>      <dbl>      <dbl>     <chr>
#> 1 -0.5976143  0.5455447 -0.3726780      Test
#> 2 -0.3585686 -0.1091089  0.5217492      Test
#> 3 -0.1195229 -0.4364358  0.2981424      Test
#> 4  0.1195229 -0.4364358 -0.2981424      Test
#> 5  0.3585686 -0.1091089 -0.5217492      Test
#> 6  0.5976143  0.5455447  0.3726780      Test

devtools::session_info()
#> Session info --------------------------------------------------------------
#>  setting  value                       
#>  version  R version 3.3.0 (2016-05-03)
#>  system   x86_64, mingw32             
#>  ui       RTerm                       
#>  language (EN)                        
#>  collate  English_United States.1252  
#>  tz       America/Chicago             
#>  date     2016-06-28
#> Packages ------------------------------------------------------------------
#>  package    * version date       source                        
#>  assertthat   0.1     2013-12-06 CRAN (R 3.0.2)                
#>  DBI          0.4-1   2016-05-08 CRAN (R 3.2.5)                
#>  devtools     1.12.0  2016-06-24 CRAN (R 3.3.1)                
#>  digest       0.6.9   2016-01-08 CRAN (R 3.2.2)                
#>  dplyr      * 0.5.0   2016-06-24 CRAN (R 3.3.1)                
#>  evaluate     0.9     2016-04-29 CRAN (R 3.2.5)                
#>  formatR      1.4     2016-05-09 CRAN (R 3.2.3)                
#>  htmltools    0.3.5   2016-03-21 CRAN (R 3.2.4)                
#>  knitr        1.13    2016-05-09 CRAN (R 3.2.3)                
#>  lazyeval     0.2.0   2016-06-12 CRAN (R 3.3.0)                
#>  magrittr     1.5     2014-11-22 CRAN (R 3.1.2)                
#>  memoise      1.0.0   2016-01-29 CRAN (R 3.2.3)                
#>  R6           2.1.2   2016-01-26 CRAN (R 3.2.3)                
#>  Rcpp         0.12.5  2016-05-14 CRAN (R 3.2.5)                
#>  rmarkdown    0.9.6   2016-05-01 CRAN (R 3.2.3)                
#>  stringi      1.1.1   2016-05-27 CRAN (R 3.2.5)                
#>  stringr      1.0.0   2015-04-30 CRAN (R 3.2.0)                
#>  tibble     * 1.0-12  2016-06-28 Github (hadley/tibble@1e5b140)
#>  withr        1.0.2   2016-06-20 CRAN (R 3.3.1)                
#>  yaml         2.1.13  2014-06-12 CRAN (R 3.1.0)
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krlmlr commented Jul 30, 2016

Each column gets a copy of the input object's attributes, including class: https://github.com/hadley/tibble/blob/6340652ee468bffcffa8180234d00f282a0ec55e/src/matrixToDataFrame.cpp#L21. This is necessary e.g. to support conversion of Date matrices, but unhelpful in the case shown here.

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- `as_tibble.matrix()` doesn't add the `class` attribute of the original matrix to the columns of the new data frame. A test had to be adapted for this, but it used a matrix of `Date` objects which don't seem to be that useful in R (#110).
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krlmlr commented Aug 18, 2016

A factor (or otherwise classed) matrix can be created via dim<-:

a <- factor(letters)
dim(a) <- c(13, 2)
class(a)
is.matrix(a)

Turns out the poly class is a very special case. I'll simply implement as_data_frame.poly().

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krlmlr commented Aug 18, 2016

@hadley: Can you think of other common matrix subclasses that may require special treatment here?

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hadley commented Aug 18, 2016

The most important would be table, but I think you already handle that. Maybe ftable? (But that's v. low priority)

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- `as_tibble.matrix()` doesn't remove the `"class"` attribute anymore, to support (again) conversion of `factor` and `Date` matrices (#110, #154).
- New `as_tibble.poly()` to support conversion of a `poly` object to a tibble.
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krlmlr commented Aug 18, 2016

Thanks. These are handled via the as.data.frame() forward. Not adding a test for now.

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- The `tibble.width` option is used for `glimpse()` only if it is finite (#153).
- Add guidance to install `nycflights13` package to examples (#152).
- New object summary vignette that shows which methods to define for custom vector classes to be used as tibble columns (#151).
- `as_tibble.matrix()` doesn't remove the `"class"` attribute anymore, to support (again) conversion of `factor` and `Date` matrices (#110, #154).
- New `as_tibble.poly()` to support conversion of a `poly` object to a tibble.
krlmlr added a commit that referenced this issue Aug 26, 2016
- The `tibble.width` option is used for `glimpse()` only if it is finite (#153, @kwstat).
- New `as_tibble.poly()` to support conversion of a `poly` object to a tibble (#110).
- `add_row()` now correctly handles existing columns of type `list` that are not updated (#148).
- `all.equal()` doesn't throw an error anymore if one of the columns is named `na.last`, `decreasing` or `method` (#107, @BillDunlap).

- New `add_column()`, analogously to `add_row()` (#99).
- `print.tbl_df()` gains `n_extra` method and will have the same interface as `trunc_mat()` from now on.
- `add_row()` and `add_column()` gain `.before` and `.after` arguments which indicate the row (by number) or column (by number or name) before or after which the new data are inserted. Updated or added columns cannot be named `.before` or `.after` (#99).
- Rename `frame_data()` to `tribble()`, stands for "transposed tibble". The former is still available as alias (#132, #143).

- `add_row()` now can add multiple rows, with recycling (#142, @jennybc).
- Use multiply character `×` instead of `x` when printing dimensions (#126). Output tests had to be disabled for this on Windows.
- Back-tick non-semantic column names on output (#131).
- Use `dttm` instead of `time` for `POSIXt` values (#133), which is now used for columns of the `difftime` class.
- Better output for 0-row results when total number of rows is unknown (e.g., for SQL data sources).

- New object summary vignette that shows which methods to define for custom vector classes to be used as tibble columns (#151).
- Added more examples for `print.tbl_df()`, now using data from `nycflights13` instead of `Lahman` (#121), with guidance to install `nycflights13` package if necessary (#152).
- Minor changes in vignette (#115, @Helix123).
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