[R] When I cbind the POSIXct gets lost

[Gabor Grothendieck]

That should have been:

do.call("rbind", by(iris[-5], iris$Species, colMeans))

On Feb 12, 2008 1:46 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> Please provide reproducible code.  Try this:
>
> do.call("rbind", by(iris, iris$Species, colMeans))
>
>
> On Feb 12, 2008 1:34 PM, Allen S. Rout <asr at ufl.edu> wrote:
> > "Gabor Grothendieck" <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > The point is don't use cbind -- use data.frame.
> >
> > Is there a conventional way to use data.frame instead of cbind when
> > processing a 'by'?
> >
> > My code is littered with:
> >
> > foo  <- data.frame(cbind(by( /* yadda */ )))
> >
> > and I've had a problem similar to the Original Poster, resulting in
> > some ugly reordering, so I do the as.POSIXct _after_ the
> > data.frame(cbind())
> >
> >
> >
> > - Allen S. Rout
> >
> >
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