R help - Feb 2009 - Error in storage when attempting to run GLM

Hello,
I'd be very grateful for help with the following.

I attempt to run a basic GLM as follows:
basic_model=glm(factor(A$b) ~ factor(A$c) )

variables b and c are text values and their class is factor. they have no
missing values.

I get the error:
Error: NA/NaN/Inf in foreign function call (arg4)
In addition: warning messages:
1: Ops.factor(y,mu) : - not meaningful for factors
2: Ops.factor(eta, offset) : - not meaningful for factors
etc


What does this mean?

R

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R User R User wrote:
> Hello,
> I'd be very grateful for help with the following.
> 
> I attempt to run a basic GLM as follows:
> basic_model=glm(factor(A$b) ~ factor(A$c) )
 >
> variables b and c are text values and their class is factor. they have no
> missing values.
> 
> I get the error:
> Error: NA/NaN/Inf in foreign function call (arg4)
> In addition: warning messages:
> 1: Ops.factor(y,mu) : - not meaningful for factors
> 2: Ops.factor(eta, offset) : - not meaningful for factors
> etc
> 
> 
> What does this mean?
That R cannot handle a Gaussian model with a factor response. You may 
want to specify a sensible family, see ?family

Uwe Ligges

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