R help - Aug 2011 - "Negative length vector" error in simple merge

Hi,

I'm trying to take a vector (length almost 2,000,000) and merge it with a
data frame of the same length. I'm trying to do it solely based on index,
and not any other factors.

The vector is called "offense", and the data frame is just called
"data". I
went with the simplest option:

merge(data,offense)

but it always gives me the same error:

Error in rep.int(rep.int(seq_len(nx), rep.int(rep.fac, nx)), orep) : 
  negative length vectors are not allowed

Solutions that haven't worked:
- Changing offense into a data frame
- Data doesn't exceed the 2^31 (2 billion) limit for length. When combined
with offense, it will have about 68 million items total

Thanks! DL

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On Aug 30, 2011, at 11:08 AM, DimmestLemming wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to take a vector (length almost 2,000,000) and merge it  
> with a
> data frame of the same length. I'm trying to do it solely based on  
> index,
> and not any other factors.
>
> The vector is called "offense", and the data frame is just called
> "data".
Bad name. There is a function named 'data'.
> I
> went with the simplest option:
>
> merge(data,offense)
It wouldn't make much sense to merge a vector with a dataframe. The  
matching column should not appear any different except perhaps  
shorter. Sounds like you want cbind() rather than merge.

(You really should have posted str(.) on both objects.)

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David.
>
> but it always gives me the same error:
>
> Error in rep.int(rep.int(seq_len(nx), rep.int(rep.fac, nx)), orep) :
>  negative length vectors are not allowed
>
> Solutions that haven't worked:
> - Changing offense into a data frame
> - Data doesn't exceed the 2^31 (2 billion) limit for length. When  
> combined
> with offense, it will have about 68 million items total
>
> Thanks! DL
>
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