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Peter Flom

2004-Mar-03 20:42 UTC

[R] Location of polr function

Hello

I am running R 1.8.1 on a  Windows platform

I am attempting to fit an ordinal logistic regression model, using the
polr function, as described in Venables and Ripley.  But when I try

model4 <- polr(ypsxcat~committed + as.factor(sex)
 + as.factor(drugusey) + anycsw + as.factor(sex)*committed
  + as.factor(sex)*as.factor(drugusey)+as.factor(sex)*anycsw, data duhray)

I get a message that the polr function was not found.  

Any help appreciated

thanks

Peter

Peter L. Flom, PhD
Assistant Director, Statistics and Data Analysis Core
Center for Drug Use and HIV Research
National Development and Research Institutes
71 W. 23rd St
www.peterflom.com
New York, NY 10010
(212) 845-4485 (voice)
(917) 438-0894 (fax)

Liaw, Andy

2004-Mar-03 21:33 UTC

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help.search() is your friend:

polr(MASS)               Proportional Odds Logistic Regression

HTH,
Andy
> From: Peter Flom
> 
> Hello
> 
> I am running R 1.8.1 on a  Windows platform
> 
> I am attempting to fit an ordinal logistic regression model, using the
> polr function, as described in Venables and Ripley.  But when I try
> 
> model4 <- polr(ypsxcat~committed + as.factor(sex)
>  + as.factor(drugusey) + anycsw + as.factor(sex)*committed
>   + as.factor(sex)*as.factor(drugusey)+as.factor(sex)*anycsw, data >
duhray)
> 
> I get a message that the polr function was not found.  
> 
> Any help appreciated
> 
> thanks
> 
> Peter
> 
> Peter L. Flom, PhD
> Assistant Director, Statistics and Data Analysis Core
> Center for Drug Use and HIV Research
> National Development and Research Institutes
> 71 W. 23rd St
> www.peterflom.com
> New York, NY 10010
> (212) 845-4485 (voice)
> (917) 438-0894 (fax)
> 
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apjaworski@mmm.com

2004-Mar-03 21:52 UTC

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Peter,

These things can be a little mysterious at the beginning.  Lots of things
in R are arranged in groups called packages (or libraries).  Some basic
ones come preinstalled with R, some you have to install yourself.  If you
type

      library()

at your R prompt you should get a list of all packages installed on your
system.

In order to use the functionality of a package you have to load it by
specifying its name as an argument to the library call.  For example,

      library(nlme)

will load the package named "nlme"  (if it is installed on your
system) and
give you the functionality of the nlme package, i.e. access to its
functions..  Typing

      search()

will show you what packages are already loaded on your system.

Search.help will allow you to find in which package your function resides
in.  Typing

      search.help(polr)

on my system returns

      polr(MASS)              Proportional Odds Logistic Regression

meaning that the polr function belongs to the package MASS which is
installed on your system.  The only thing remaining to do is typing

      library(MASS)

Of course, if MASS is not installed on your system you will get nothing in
response (actually you will get a message saying that nothing appropriate
was found).  Then, you would need to go to a CRAN site and use their search
engine to find things about polr function.

Hope this helps,

Andy


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Hello

I am running R 1.8.1 on a  Windows platform

I am attempting to fit an ordinal logistic regression model, using the
polr function, as described in Venables and Ripley.  But when I try

model4 <- polr(ypsxcat~committed + as.factor(sex)
 + as.factor(drugusey) + anycsw + as.factor(sex)*committed
  + as.factor(sex)*as.factor(drugusey)+as.factor(sex)*anycsw, data duhray)

I get a message that the polr function was not found.

Any help appreciated

thanks

Peter

Peter L. Flom, PhD
Assistant Director, Statistics and Data Analysis Core
Center for Drug Use and HIV Research
National Development and Research Institutes
71 W. 23rd St
www.peterflom.com
New York, NY 10010
(212) 845-4485 (voice)
(917) 438-0894 (fax)

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Chuck Cleland

2004-Mar-03 22:16 UTC

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Peter Flom wrote:> I am running R 1.8.1 on a  Windows platform
> 
> I am attempting to fit an ordinal logistic regression model, using the
> polr function, as described in Venables and Ripley.  But when I try
> 
> model4 <- polr(ypsxcat~committed + as.factor(sex)
>  + as.factor(drugusey) + anycsw + as.factor(sex)*committed
>   + as.factor(sex)*as.factor(drugusey)+as.factor(sex)*anycsw, data >
duhray)
> 
> I get a message that the polr function was not found.  
Load the MASS package prior to calling polr().

library(MASS)

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Hadley Wickham

2004-Mar-03 22:31 UTC

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> I get a message that the polr function was not found.  
Did you remember to load the MASS library first?
library(MASS)

Hadley

Peter Dalgaard

2004-Mar-03 22:32 UTC

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"Peter Flom" <flom at ndri.org> writes:
> Hello
> 
> I am running R 1.8.1 on a  Windows platform
> 
> I am attempting to fit an ordinal logistic regression model, using the
> polr function, as described in Venables and Ripley.  But when I try
> 
> model4 <- polr(ypsxcat~committed + as.factor(sex)
>  + as.factor(drugusey) + anycsw + as.factor(sex)*committed
>   + as.factor(sex)*as.factor(drugusey)+as.factor(sex)*anycsw, data >
duhray)
> 
> I get a message that the polr function was not found.  
> 
> Any help appreciated
library(MASS)

(and help.search("polr") might have given you the idea)

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Spencer Graves

2004-Mar-03 22:38 UTC

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> help.search("polr")Help files with alias or concept or title matching 'polr' using
regular expression matching:



polr(MASS)              Proportional Odds Logistic Regression



Type 'help(FOO, package = PKG)' to inspect entry 'FOO(PKG)
TITLE'.
 >
      Did you ask "library(MASS)" first? 
      hope this helps.  spencer graves

Peter Flom wrote:
>Hello
>
>I am running R 1.8.1 on a  Windows platform
>
>I am attempting to fit an ordinal logistic regression model, using the
>polr function, as described in Venables and Ripley.  But when I try
>
>model4 <- polr(ypsxcat~committed + as.factor(sex)
> + as.factor(drugusey) + anycsw + as.factor(sex)*committed
>  + as.factor(sex)*as.factor(drugusey)+as.factor(sex)*anycsw, data
>duhray)
>
>I get a message that the polr function was not found.  
>
>Any help appreciated
>
>thanks
>
>Peter
>
>Peter L. Flom, PhD
>Assistant Director, Statistics and Data Analysis Core
>Center for Drug Use and HIV Research
>National Development and Research Institutes
>71 W. 23rd St
>www.peterflom.com
>New York, NY 10010
>(212) 845-4485 (voice)
>(917) 438-0894 (fax)
>
>______________________________________________
>R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
>https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>PLEASE do read the posting guide!
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>  
>

kjetil@entelnet.bo

2004-Mar-03 22:53 UTC

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On 3 Mar 2004 at 15:42, Peter Flom wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I am running R 1.8.1 on a  Windows platform
> 
> I am attempting to fit an ordinal logistic regression model, using the
> polr function, as described in Venables and Ripley.  But when I try
It would help if you started by saying 

library(MASS)

Not knowing that, you could find out by trying

help.search("polr")

Kjetil Halvorsen
> 
> model4 <- polr(ypsxcat~committed + as.factor(sex)
>  + as.factor(drugusey) + anycsw + as.factor(sex)*committed
>   + as.factor(sex)*as.factor(drugusey)+as.factor(sex)*anycsw, data >
duhray)
> 
> I get a message that the polr function was not found.  
> 
> Any help appreciated
> 
> thanks
> 
> Peter
> 
> Peter L. Flom, PhD
> Assistant Director, Statistics and Data Analysis Core
> Center for Drug Use and HIV Research
> National Development and Research Institutes
> 71 W. 23rd St
> www.peterflom.com
> New York, NY 10010
> (212) 845-4485 (voice)
> (917) 438-0894 (fax)
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide!
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html

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