R help - Mar 2006 - error message with stats package fx cor R aqua v1.14

Hello,
Sorry if this is somewhere in the archives but i couldn't find it. I 
am using the funtion cor() and inputting a large matrix with a column 
of 0, for which i get NA's for. I'm looking for a way to overcome 
that divide by 0 error btw but my real issue is this:
I specify the method as pearson but the error messages always say kendall
ex)
>  read.csv("ncatest.csv", header = FALSE, sep = ",",
dec=".")->ncatest
>  ncatest<- ncatest[,-1]
>   rownames(ncatest2)<- ncatest[,1]
>  ncatest2<-as.matrix(ncatest2)
>  > dim(ncatest2)
[1] 10482    11
>  cornca<-cor(ncatest2, method="pearson")
Warning message:
the standard deviation is zero in: cor(x, y, na.method, method ==
"kendall")


I would like to confirm that i am using the metric I specified and 
that its not defaulting to kendall for some weird reason.
Thanks for any assistance.
Sincerely,
betty
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Hi R users:

Sorry if the attached file didn't arrive.
Im sending you in a zip format, hope it arrives.

The data base is not too large so I copy here in ascii format:

Thank you for your help

Kenneth

testData.dat

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