Dear Simon,
Your intention appears to be to call the recode() function in the car package.
That function is not generic, and consequently has no default method, leading me
to believe that you've called a recode() function in some other package.
I hope this helps,
John
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John Fox
Sen. William McMaster Prof. of Social Statistics
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:01:42 -0400
Simon Kiss <sjkiss at gmail.com> wrote:> Dear colleagues, working with the data frame below, trying to reverse two
variables I the error message below.
> i searched through the help list but could not find any postings which
could help me solve the situation. I tried attaching and detaching the data
frame to no avail.
> Yours, Simon Kiss
>
> *DATA FRAME
> 'data.frame': 1569 obs. of 9 variables:
> $ equal : num 3 4 3 2 3 4 2 3 2 2 ...
> $ disc : num 3 2 3 3 2 2 3 3 3 3 ...
> $ family : num 3 2 2 2 3 2 2 1 2 1 ...
> $ special : num 3 3 4 4 3 3 4 4 3 4 ...
> $ immigrants: num 3 8 3 8 3 3 4 1 1 2 ...
> $ wedlock : num 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 8 2 3 ...
> $ crime : num 3 2 2 1 2 3 1 8 2 1 ...
> $ breakdown : num 3 3 3 2 2 4 8 2 2 4 ...
> $ nonwhites : num 2 4 3 3 2 2 3 4 3 3 ...
>
> *RECODE
> social$nonwhites<-recode(social$nonwhites, "1=4; 2=3; 3=2; 4=1;
8=NA; -9=NA")
>
> *ERROR
> Error in recode.default(social$nonwhites, "1=4; 2=3; 3=2; 4=1; 8=NA;
-9=NA") :
> object '.data' not found
>
>
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