faq-error-incompatible-attributes {vctrs}

FAQ - Error/Warning: Some attributes are incompatible

Description

This error occurs when vec_ptype2() or vec_cast() are supplied vectors of the same classes with different attributes. In this case, vctrs doesn't know how to combine the inputs.

To fix this error, the maintainer of the class should implement self-to-self coercion methods for vec_ptype2() and vec_cast().

Implementing coercion methods

• For an overview of how these generics work and their roles in vctrs, see ?theory-faq-coercion.

• For an example of implementing coercion methods for simple vectors, see ?howto-faq-coercion.

• For an example of implementing coercion methods for data frame subclasses, see ?howto-faq-coercion-data-frame.

• For a tutorial about implementing vctrs classes from scratch, see vignette("s3-vector").