警告信息:在rbindlist(allargs)中:强制引入的NA:data.table中可能出现的错误?

时间:2013-01-29 13:48:24

标签: r data.table

在分析一些数据时,我遇到了警告信息,我怀疑这是一个错误,因为这是一个非常简单的命令,我已多次使用过。

Warning message:
In rbindlist(allargs) : NAs introduced by coercion

我能够重现错误。这是您应该能够重现错误的代码。

# unique random names for column V1
set.seed(45)
n <- sapply(1:500, function(x) {
    paste(sample(c(letters[1:26]), 10), collapse="")
})
# generate some values for V2 and V3
dt <- data.table(V1 = sample(n, 30*500, replace = TRUE), 
                 V2 = sample(1:10, 30*500, replace = TRUE), 
                 V3 = sample(50:100, 30*500, replace = TRUE))
setkey(dt, "V1")

# No warning when providing column names (and right results)
dt[, list(s = sum(V2), m = mean(V3)),by=V1]

#              V1   s        m
#   1: acgmqyuwpe 238 74.97778
#   2: adcltygwsq 204 79.94118
#   3: adftozibnh 165 75.51515
#   4: aeuowtlskr 164 75.70968
#   5: ahfoqclkpg 192 73.20000
#  ---                        
# 496: zuqegoxkpi  93 77.95000
# 497: zwpserimgf 178 72.62963
# 498: zxkpdrlcsf 154 78.04167
# 499: zxvoaeflhq 121 75.34615
# 500: zyiwcsanlm 180 76.61290

# Warning message and results with NA
dt[, list(sum(V2), mean(V3)),by=V1]

#              V1  V1       V2
#   1: acgmqyuwpe 238 74.97778
#   2: adcltygwsq 204 79.94118
#   3: adftozibnh 165 75.51515
#   4: aeuowtlskr 164 75.70968
#   5: ahfoqclkpg 192 73.20000
#  ---                        
# 496: zuqegoxkpi  NA 77.95000
# 497: zwpserimgf  NA 72.62963
# 498: zxkpdrlcsf  NA 78.04167
# 499: zxvoaeflhq  NA 75.34615
# 500: zyiwcsanlm  NA 76.61290

Warning message:
In rbindlist(allargs) : NAs introduced by coercion
  • 1)如果您没有提供列名,似乎会发生这种情况。

  • 2)即便如此,尤其是当V1(或您在by=中使用的列)中有很多unique条目(此处为500条)并且您不在#39; t指定列名,然后这似乎发生了。也就是说,当by=V1 更少唯一条目时,不会发生。例如,尝试将n的代码从sapply(1:500, ...更改为sapply(1:50, ...,您就不会收到任何警告。

这里发生了什么?它的R版本2.15在Macbook pro上有OS X 10.8.2(虽然我在2.15.2的另一个macbook pro上进行了测试)。这是sessionInfo()

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] data.table_1.8.6 reshape2_1.2.2  

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] plyr_1.8      stringr_0.6.2 tools_2.15.0 

刚刚转载2.15.2

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] data.table_1.8.6

1 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:7)

更新:现已由里卡多修复于v1.8.9

  

o rbind'ing data.tables包含重复,“”或NA列名称   现在有效,#2726&amp; #2384。感谢Garrett See和Arun Srinivasan   报告。这也影响了data.tables的打印   重复的列名称,因为头部和尾部一起被绑定   内部。


是的,错误。似乎是data.table的打印方法,名称重复。

ans = dt[, list(sum(V2), mean(V3)),by=V1]
head(ans)
           V1  V1       V2     # notice the duplicated V1
1: acgmqyuwpe 140 78.07692
2: adcltygwsq 191 76.93333
3: adftozibnh 153 73.82143
4: aeuowtlskr 122 73.04348
5: ahfoqclkpg 143 75.83333
6: ahtczyuipw 135 73.54167
tail(ans)
           V1  V1       V2
1: zugrnehpmq 189 72.63889
2: zuqegoxkpi 150 76.03333
3: zwpserimgf 180 74.81818
4: zxkpdrlcsf 115 72.57895
5: zxvoaeflhq 157 76.53571
6: zyiwcsanlm 145 72.79167
print(ans)
Error in rbindlist(allargs) : 
    (converted from warning) NAs introduced by coercion
rbind(head(ans),tail(ans))
Error in rbindlist(allargs) : 
    (converted from warning) NAs introduced by coercion

作为解决方法,请勿创建包含列名V1V2等的data.table。

由于这个已知错误而产生:

#2384 rbind of tables containing duplicate column names doesn't bind correctly

我在这个问题上添加了一个链接。

谢谢!