R devel - Jul 2007 - cor() and cor.test() (PR#9781)

Hello,

I am trying to make a correlation matrix in R using cor() and also to get
the p-value for each correlation using cor.test().  I can't get these
commands to work. I'm getting errors like the following:

cor(Pollution, Wet.days)
Error in inherits(x, "data.frame") : Object "Wet.days" not
found
cor("Pollution", "Wet.days")
Error in cor("Pollution", "Wet.days") : missing observations
in cov/cor
In addition: Warning messages:
1: NAs introduced by coercion
2: NAs introduced by coercion

I know that "Wet.days" is there because when I type the name of the
data set
(Pollution) it appears. There are no missing values in the data set for
there to be any NAs coerced. This is the example given in Mick Crawley's
book on R with Pollution data so it should definitely work.

Can you help me to get it working, please?
Kristle

-- 
Kristle Krichbaum
Graduate Assistant
Hudson Lab
208 Mueller Lab
University Park, PA 16801
www.cidd.psu.edu

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The cor function does not know how to look inside of data frames (unless
you give it the entire data frame as the only argument).  If Pollution
and Wet.days are columns of the data frame named Pollution (which I
infer from your problem statement below) then you can do things like:
> cor(Pollution$Pollution, Pollution$Wed.days)
Or
> cor( Pollution[ ,c('Pollution','Wet.days')] )
Or 
> with( Pollution, cor(Pollution, Wet.days) )
Or 
> attach(Pollution)
> cor(Pollution, Wet.days)
> detach()
The last one may have problems since the data frame has the same name as
the column.  The with option is prefered to the last one anyways.

Hope this helps,

-- 
Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at intermountainmail.org
(801) 408-8111
 
 
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to make a correlation matrix in R using cor() and 
> also to get the p-value for each correlation using 
> cor.test().  I can't get these commands to work. I'm getting 
> errors like the following:
> 
> cor(Pollution, Wet.days)
> Error in inherits(x, "data.frame") : Object "Wet.days"
not
> found cor("Pollution", "Wet.days") Error in
cor("Pollution",
> "Wet.days") : missing observations in cov/cor In addition: 
> Warning messages:
> 1: NAs introduced by coercion
> 2: NAs introduced by coercion
> 
> I know that "Wet.days" is there because when I type the name 
> of the data set
> (Pollution) it appears. There are no missing values in the 
> data set for there to be any NAs coerced. This is the example 
> given in Mick Crawley's book on R with Pollution data so it 
> should definitely work.
> 
> Can you help me to get it working, please?
> Kristle
> 
> --
> Kristle Krichbaum
> Graduate Assistant
> Hudson Lab
> 208 Mueller Lab
> University Park, PA 16801
> www.cidd.psu.edu
> 
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