-- Originally posted by (AT sourceforge.net): *anonymous -- -- This ticket was imported from http://sourceforge.net/p/rkward/bugs/112 on 2017-05-30 15:26:48 +0100 -- In the data editor, if one of a data frame's variables is a factor containing many levels, editing one cell results in a very big popup menu with all factor levels filling the screen. The menu doesn't show all of the levels since there are too many of them to fit on screen, and yet one cannot go out of the menu using the mouse because there's nowhere to click. All in all, this feels badly broken. ;-\) Having many factor levels can sound silly, but that's how R imports character variables from CSV files, so that's not an uncommon scenario. As a short-term fix, I think the popup menu shouldn't appear if there are more than 50 or 80 levels, so that the menu keeps a reasonable size. Anyway, when there are too many choices, it's an efficient solution to select a level. The better fix would be to provide auto-completion once the user has typed enough letters that the possible choices are under 50. But hand-editing very large factors isn't probably a common use case, so maybe that's not worth it: as long as the editor doesn't do weird things, it's OK.
-- Originally posted by (AT sourceforge.net): nalimilan -- Gosh, SourceForge really doesn't want to remember who I am... :-p
Dear Bug Submitter, This bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? I am setting the status to NEEDSINFO pending your response, please change the Status back to REPORTED when you respond. Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Two columns get created, automatically, now. That's still not terribly useful, but then having very many levels in a factor is simply a problem to any approach. Test-case in case this comes up again: x <- data.frame (c (letters, paste0("a", letters)) rk.edit (x)
Closing this was a bit premature. But the commit below finally addresses the issue for real: Git commit 1a03828b813c0fb34067b978da9ff0afe500bb5a by Thomas Friedrichsmeier. Committed on 06/11/2018 at 17:20. Pushed by tfry into branch 'master'. Limit number of factor levels to show in popup. I was a bit too fast in calling that bug fixed, but now it should be: M +9 -1 rkward/misc/celleditor.cpp https://commits.kde.org/rkward/1a03828b813c0fb34067b978da9ff0afe500bb5a