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[R-Forge #5690] rbindlist/rbind should be able to recycle wherever possible #524

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arunsrinivasan opened this issue Jun 8, 2014 · 2 comments · Fixed by #3455
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Submitted by: Arun ; Assigned to: Nobody; R-Forge link

I'm quite satisfied with the implementation of use.names and fill arguments and moving everything to C, with the recent commit (1266 v1.9.3). However, as written here: http://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/pipermail/datatable-help/2014-May/002552.html I'd love for the recycling feature to be present as well, as this'd allow for replacing the "binding" inside [.data.table to use rbindlist with use.names = TRUE.

This'll also solve http://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/pipermail/datatable-help/2014-April/002480.html issue (if we use rbindlist internally in [.data.table with use.names=TRUE (or keeping it as an additional argument).

@mattdowle mattdowle added this to the 1.12.2 milestone Mar 14, 2019
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mattdowle commented Mar 14, 2019

Planning to close this as wont-fix in the same spirit as the change in v1.12.2 to stop := from recycling.
I haven't looked through the links above yet, though. Will look at them before closing. Maybe others can comment please if this shouldn't be closed.

@mattdowle mattdowle mentioned this issue Mar 14, 2019
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Have read the links now. I didn't realize rbindlist didn't recycle length-1 items. Agree it should do.
In Arun's post :

dt1 = data.table(x=1:3, y=4:6, z=list(1:2, 1:3, 1:4))
lst1 <- list(x=4, y=5, z=as.list(1:3))

Current behaviour :

> rbind(dt1, lst1)
Error in rbindlist(l, use.names, fill, idcol) : 
  Column 3 of item 2 is length 3 inconsistent with the first column of that item which
  is length 1. rbind/rbindlist expects each item in the input list to be a uniform list,
  data.frame or data.table
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Expected behaviour :

rbind(dt1, lst1)
#    x y       z
# 1: 1 4     1,2
# 2: 2 5   1,2,3
# 3: 3 6 1,2,3,4
# 4: 4 5       1
# 5: 4 5       2
# 6: 4 5       3

Will do.

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