[R] Error in cor.default(x1, x2) : missing observations in cov/cor

[Erik Iverson]

What happens when you type "cor" at the R prompt?  Perhaps your calling 
of the cor function is not calling the cor function in the stats package?



Ken Spriggs wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to do cor(x1,x2) and I get the following error:
> Error in cor.default(x1, x2) : missing observations in cov/cor
> 
> A few things:
> 1.  I've used cor() many times and have never encountered this error.
> 2.  length(x1) = length(x2)
> 3.  is.numeric(x1) = is.numeric(x2) = TRUE
> 4.  which(is.na(x1))  = which(is.na(x2)) = integer(0)   {the same goes for
> is.nan()}
> 5.  I also try cor(x1,x2, use = "all.obs") and get the same error.
> 
> What can be going wrong?
> 
>