ONKELINX, Thierry wrote:> Dear useRs,
>
> Lately I noticed a strange warning in the summary of a lm-object. Any
> idea what this warning is about? I'm using R 2.5.1 on Win XP pro.
>
>> x <- rnorm(100)
>> y <- rnorm(100)
>> summary(lm(y~x))
>
> Call:
> lm(formula = y ~ x)
>
> Residuals:
> Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
> -1,77809 -0,68438 -0,04409 0,63891 2,30863
>
> Coefficients:
> Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
> (Intercept) -0,00217 0,09244 -0,023 0,981
> x 0,01315 0,09628 0,137 0,892
>
> Residual standard error: 0,9236 on 98 degrees of freedom
> Multiple R-Squared: 0.0001903, Adjusted R-squared: -0.01001
> F-statistic: 0.01866 on 1 and 98 DF, p-value: 0,8916
>
> Warning message:
> NAs introduced by coercion in: as.double.default(Cf[okP])
Probably you have an object in your workspace or another attached
environment in the search path that conflicts with objects that are
required to call summary(lm(...)). E.g. some lm... oder summary... function?
Best,
Uwe Ligges
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thierry
>
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