Coerce to data.table
Functions to check if an object is data.table, or coerce it if possible.
as.data.table(x, keep.rownames=FALSE, ...)
## S3 method for class 'data.table'
as.data.table(x, ...)
## S3 method for class 'array'
as.data.table(x, keep.rownames=FALSE, key=NULL, sorted=TRUE,
value.name="value", na.rm=TRUE, ...)
is.data.table(x)x |
An R object. |
keep.rownames |
Default is |
key |
Character vector of one or more column names which is passed to |
sorted |
logical used in array method, default |
value.name |
character scalar used in array method, default |
na.rm |
logical used in array method, default |
... |
Additional arguments to be passed to or from other methods. |
as.data.table is a generic function with many methods, and other packages can supply further methods.
If a list is supplied, each element is converted to a column in the data.table with shorter elements recycled automatically. Similarly, each column of a matrix is converted separately.
character objects are not converted to factor types unlike as.data.frame.
keep.rownames argument can be used to preserve the (row)names attribute in the resulting data.table.
nn = c(a=0.1, b=0.2, c=0.3, d=0.4)
as.data.table(nn)
as.data.table(nn, keep.rownames=TRUE)
as.data.table(nn, keep.rownames="rownames")
# char object not converted to factor
cc = c(X="a", Y="b", Z="c")
as.data.table(cc)
as.data.table(cc, keep.rownames=TRUE)
as.data.table(cc, keep.rownames="rownames")
mm = matrix(1:4, ncol=2, dimnames=list(c("r1", "r2"), c("c1", "c2")))
as.data.table(mm)
as.data.table(mm, keep.rownames=TRUE)
as.data.table(mm, keep.rownames="rownames")
as.data.table(mm, key="c1")
ll = list(a=1:2, b=3:4)
as.data.table(ll)
as.data.table(ll, keep.rownames=TRUE)
as.data.table(ll, keep.rownames="rownames")
DF = data.frame(x=rep(c("x","y","z"),each=2), y=c(1,3,6), row.names=LETTERS[1:6])
as.data.table(DF)
as.data.table(DF, keep.rownames=TRUE)
as.data.table(DF, keep.rownames="rownames")
DT = data.table(x=rep(c("x","y","z"),each=2), y=c(1:6))
as.data.table(DT)
as.data.table(DT, key='x')
ar = rnorm(27)
ar[sample(27, 15)] = NA
dim(ar) = c(3L,3L,3L)
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