R help - Sep 2008 - print.data.frame : row.name = FALSE not having intended effect

Hi,

Does anybody know if row.name = FALSE actually works in v2.6.2?
Because it isn't working for me... here is some sample code and
output:

====+====+====+====+====+====+====+====+====+====+
> print(x,row.names = FALSE)
   party_abbr       candidate_name votes_candidate
2         DFL        AMY KLOBUCHAR       1,278,849
5           R         MARK KENNEDY         835,653
4          IP    ROBERT FITZGERALD          71,194
3          GP MICHAEL JAMES CAVLAN          10,714
1          CP           BEN POWERS           5,408
10         WI           WRITE-IN**             901
8          WI     PETER IDUSOGIE**              29
6          WI    CHARLES ALDRICH**              15
9          WI REBECCA WILLIAMSON**               5
7          WI       JOHN ULDRICH**               4
>
====+====+====+====+====+====+====+====+====+====+

Thanks,
Matt

-- 
It is from the wellspring of our despair and the places that we are
broken that we come to repair the world.
-- Murray Waas

Never mind -- the answer is buried in my own question... I was looking
at documentation for version 2.7.2, and when I looked at the one for
2.6.2, I see the row.names option isn't in that release.

Any suggestions on how I can code around that in 2.6.2, so I don't
have to upgrade to 2.7.2 just yet?

Thanks,
Matt

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Matthew Pettis
<matthew.pettis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anybody know if row.name = FALSE actually works in v2.6.2?
> Because it isn't working for me... here is some sample code and
> output:
>
> ====+====+====+====+====+====+====+====+====+====+
>> print(x,row.names = FALSE)
>   party_abbr       candidate_name votes_candidate
> 2         DFL        AMY KLOBUCHAR       1,278,849
> 5           R         MARK KENNEDY         835,653
> 4          IP    ROBERT FITZGERALD          71,194
> 3          GP MICHAEL JAMES CAVLAN          10,714
> 1          CP           BEN POWERS           5,408
> 10         WI           WRITE-IN**             901
> 8          WI     PETER IDUSOGIE**              29
> 6          WI    CHARLES ALDRICH**              15
> 9          WI REBECCA WILLIAMSON**               5
> 7          WI       JOHN ULDRICH**               4
>>
> ====+====+====+====+====+====+====+====+====+====+
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
> --
> It is from the wellspring of our despair and the places that we are
> broken that we come to repair the world.
> -- Murray Waas
>


-- 
It is from the wellspring of our despair and the places that we are
broken that we come to repair the world.
-- Murray Waas

Here's the current method for printing a data frame:

> print.data.frame
function (x, ..., digits = NULL, quote = FALSE, right = TRUE, 
    row.names = TRUE) 
{
    n <- length(row.names(x))
    if (length(x) == 0L) {
        cat("NULL data frame with", n, "rows\n")
    }
    else if (n == 0L) {
        print.default(names(x), quote = FALSE)
        cat("<0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)\n")
    }
    else {
        m <- as.matrix(format.data.frame(x, digits = digits, 
            na.encode = FALSE))
        if (!isTRUE(row.names)) 
            dimnames(m)[[1]] <- if (identical(row.names, FALSE)) 
                rep.int("", n)
            else row.names
        print(m, ..., quote = quote, right = right)
    }
    invisible(x)
}
<environment: namespace:base>
> 
so you can either set up your own copy of this
or make a matrix copy of your data frame (as
done in the function above) and set the row names
to ""


HTH

Steve McKinney



-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org on behalf of Matthew Pettis
Sent: Tue 9/23/2008 6:55 PM
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] print.data.frame : row.name = FALSE not having intendedeffect
 
Never mind -- the answer is buried in my own question... I was looking
at documentation for version 2.7.2, and when I looked at the one for
2.6.2, I see the row.names option isn't in that release.

Any suggestions on how I can code around that in 2.6.2, so I don't
have to upgrade to 2.7.2 just yet?

Thanks,
Matt

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Matthew Pettis
<matthew.pettis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anybody know if row.name = FALSE actually works in v2.6.2?
> Because it isn't working for me... here is some sample code and
> output:
>
> ====+====+====+====+====+====+====+====+====+====+
>> print(x,row.names = FALSE)
>   party_abbr       candidate_name votes_candidate
> 2         DFL        AMY KLOBUCHAR       1,278,849
> 5           R         MARK KENNEDY         835,653
> 4          IP    ROBERT FITZGERALD          71,194
> 3          GP MICHAEL JAMES CAVLAN          10,714
> 1          CP           BEN POWERS           5,408
> 10         WI           WRITE-IN**             901
> 8          WI     PETER IDUSOGIE**              29
> 6          WI    CHARLES ALDRICH**              15
> 9          WI REBECCA WILLIAMSON**               5
> 7          WI       JOHN ULDRICH**               4
>>
> ====+====+====+====+====+====+====+====+====+====+
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
> --
> It is from the wellspring of our despair and the places that we are
> broken that we come to repair the world.
> -- Murray Waas
>


-- 
It is from the wellspring of our despair and the places that we are
broken that we come to repair the world.
-- Murray Waas

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