[R] inadverted reordering of a df column when it is copied to another df

[Bert Gunter]

You are wrong. No reordering occurs.

Cheers,
Bert




Bert Gunter

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On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 8:05 AM, Karl Schilling
<karl.schilling at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> Dear all:
>
> I have two data.frames A and B of the same number of rows (about 40,000). I
> realized that when I copy column x from data.frame A to B, the order of this
> column  gets changed. This seems to affect only values in rownumbers > ~
> 35/36,000. It also happens in any of the following three approaches:
>
> A$x <- B$x
>
> x <- B$x (here, x is still in the correct order)
> B$x <- x : now x is reordered
>
> B <- cbind(A, B$x)
>
> I am working with Windows7Pro/64bit, R 3.3.3, and RStudio 0.99.903.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Best regards
>
> Karl Schilling
>
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