Queryverse @map question

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I have

describe(gewig)

Summary Stats:
Mean:           2979.413793
Minimum:        1613.000000
1st Quartile:   2226.500000
Median:         2822.500000
3rd Quartile:   3618.250000
Maximum:        5140.000000
Length:         406
Type:           Int64

According to a Queryverse tutorial I can do

 gewig |> @map({foo=_, bar=_^2})

which works as expected.

But when I do this:

m = 2979.413793
sa = std(gewig, mean = m)
gewig |> @map({foo=_, bar=(_-m)/sa})

I get an error which I do not understand:

type UnionAll has no field parameters

What is the correct way to do this?

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Are you running this in the REPL? It looks like Query cannot be certain of the types of the values m and sa because they are non-constant globals, and I think Query relies on type inference to know what the final column types should be. The first example is okay because the 2 in ^2 is hardcoded and the compiler knows its type can’t change.

I understand there are plans to remove this reliance on type inference in the future. But for now, if you wrap all the code in a function or declare the variables as constant beforehand (e.g. const m = 2979.413793) then it should work.

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3

Thanks for the clarification.
Defining constants helped in this case (using REPL).

4

Yep, that is correct. The version that runs on 0.7 will drop the reliance on type inference, I’m almost done with it.

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