[R] Error in cor.default(x1, x2) : missing observations in cov/cor
Ken Spriggs
ksspriggs at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 16:14:47 CET 2008
Here's what happened...
> stats::cor(x1,x2)
Error in stats::cor(x1, x2) : missing observations in cov/cor
Erik Iverson wrote:
>
> OK, that is not the definition of cor in the stats package. Some add-on
> package you are loading might be overwriting it.
>
> What happens if you do
>
> stats::cor(x1,x2)
>
> ?
>
>
>
> Ken Spriggs wrote:
>> I get the following:
>>
>>> cor
>> function (x, y = NULL, use = "all.obs", method = c("pearson",
>> "kendall", "spearman"))
>> {
>> UseMethod("cor")
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Erik Iverson wrote:
>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>>
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