R help - Apr 2011 - converting data.frame into a numeric ( integer) form

Hi Everyone,

I am relatively new to R and would appreciate your help on this problem that
I encontered this morning.
When running an ordinal IRT model using Ratings package on R, I keep getting
this error message.

ord.out<-ordrating(UNORD, burnin = 1000, mcmc = 40,000, thin = 400, tune 1,
verbose = 1000, seed = NA)

Error in as.vector(as.integer(Y)) : 
  (list) object cannot be coerced to type 'integer'

UNORD is my data.frame and it is in the form of delimited CSV file without
either row or column name.
According to the help page on Ordinal ratings, Y should be "a Matrix of
data
to be analyzed. Entries must be integers from 1; : : : ;C or NA where C is
the number of ordinal categories. Items are on the rows and subjects are on
the columns." I am confused because my data.frame only contains numerica
values of 1,2,3, and NA. I checked and my NAs were all numeric. 

Any help or advice you could provide on this issue would be greatly
appreciated. Thank you very much.
I would like to thank all the R experts navigating this forum in advance. 

Sincerely,
Haillie 

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On 17.04.2011 19:29, Haillie wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am relatively new to R and would appreciate your help on this problem
that
> I encontered this morning.
> When running an ordinal IRT model using Ratings package on R, I keep
getting
> this error message.
>
> ord.out<-ordrating(UNORD, burnin = 1000, mcmc = 40,000, thin = 400, tune
> 1, verbose = 1000, seed = NA)
>
> Error in as.vector(as.integer(Y)) :
>    (list) object cannot be coerced to type 'integer'
>
> UNORD is my data.frame
... but ?ordrating tells you it must be a matrix rather than a data.frame.

Uwe Ligges

> and it is in the form of delimited CSV file without
> either row or column name.
> According to the help page on Ordinal ratings, Y should be "a Matrix
of data
> to be analyzed. Entries must be integers from 1; : : : ;C or NA where C is
> the number of ordinal categories. Items are on the rows and subjects are on
> the columns." I am confused because my data.frame only contains
numerica
> values of 1,2,3, and NA. I checked and my NAs were all numeric.
>
> Any help or advice you could provide on this issue would be greatly
> appreciated. Thank you very much.
> I would like to thank all the R experts navigating this forum in advance.
>
> Sincerely,
> Haillie
>
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