R help - Dec 2007 - PCA - "cov.wt(z) : 'x' must contain finite values only"

I am trying to run PCA on a matrix (the first column and row are
headers).  There are several cells with NA's.  When I run PCA with the
following code:
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setwd("I:/PCA")
AsianProp<-read.csv("Matrix.csv", sep=",", header=T,
row.names=1)
attach(AsianProp)
AsianProp
AsianProp.pca<-princomp(AsianProp, na.omit)
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I get the error message:

cov.wt(z) : 'x' must contain finite values only

What am I doing wrong?  

Thanks very much!

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The problem is the missing values.  The argument "na.action" is not
active
in princomp(), which I think is a bug, even though the help page claims that
"factory fresh" default is na.omit.

So, you need to either get rid of the rows with any missing values in them,
or use a PCA code that can deal with missing values by somehow imputing
them.

Ravi.

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Subject: [R] PCA - "cov.wt(z) : 'x' must contain finite values
only"

I am trying to run PCA on a matrix (the first column and row are
headers).  There are several cells with NA's.  When I run PCA with the
following code:
______________________________________
setwd("I:/PCA")
AsianProp<-read.csv("Matrix.csv", sep=",", header=T,
row.names=1)
attach(AsianProp)
AsianProp
AsianProp.pca<-princomp(AsianProp, na.omit)
_____________________________________

I get the error message:

cov.wt(z) : 'x' must contain finite values only

What am I doing wrong?  

Thanks very much!

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