Bug 380792

Summary:	FIXED IN SVN: Changing variable to factor can destroy data
Product:	[Applications] rkward	Reporter:	RKWard Team <rkward-devel>
Component:	general	Assignee:	RKWard Team <rkward-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	All
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description RKWard Team 2012-11-21 06:55:22 UTC

-- Originally posted by (AT sourceforge.net): ziogelis77 --

-- This ticket was imported from http://sourceforge.net/p/rkward/bugs/124 on 2017-05-30 15:27:01 +0100 --
Editing factor levels for numeric data and then changing data type to factor destroys the data. I have reported the bug a while ago. It happens again at least as of RKWard 5.7, it can be reproduced exactly the same way as described in the previous bug report.-- Labels: data handling --

Comment 1 Thomas Friedrichsmeier 2012-11-21 12:04:49 UTC

Hi\!

Many thanks for reporting. Actually, I think this differs a bit from the previous bug report. Then, the problem was changing to factor, when levels had already been set. Now it's changing to factor, when no \(or not enough\) levels have been set. Probably this has been an issue, before, but may have been papered over by some other issues that have been fixed, meanwhile.

I have fixed this in SVN \(I hope, I finally got it right\).

I would be very much appreciated, if you could do some testing: http://p.sf.net/rkward/svn for instructions. For Ubuntu, a fixed version should be available from our daily build archive, tomorrow \(https://launchpad.net/~rkward-devel/+archive/rkward-dailys\).

Comment 2 Thomas Friedrichsmeier 2012-11-21 12:04:49 UTC

- **assigned_to**: nobody --> tfry
- **summary**: 3142569 bug is back --> FIXED IN SVN: Changing variable to factor can destroy data
- **status**: open --> open-fixed

Comment 3 RKWard Team 2012-11-22 09:49:44 UTC

-- Originally posted by (AT sourceforge.net): ziogelis77 --
Hi, thank you for fixing the bug. It does appear to be fixed, i did all kinds of manipulations with data and it did not disappear at any point this time.

Comment 4 Thomas Friedrichsmeier 2013-04-16 13:49:58 UTC

- **status**: open-fixed --> closed
- **Group**:  --> CRASH