R help - Jun 2011 - Question about error message

Greetings,

I'm getting this error message using Joe Shafer's "NORM"
package.

Error in storage.mode(x) <- "double" :
   (list) object cannot be coerced to type 'double'

I'm not sure what this means.


I get this message when running

  s <- prelim.norm(filename)

prelim.norm is used to develop some summary statistics, etc. before 
implementing the EM algorithm for missing data.  Please note that this 
is a data fusion exercise and there is considerable amounts of missing 
data by design.

Thanks in advance,

David

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University of Wisconsin - Madison
Educational Sciences, Room, 1082B
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Madison, WI 53706

email: dkaplan@education.wisc.edu
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On 11-06-28 4:22 PM, David Kaplan wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm getting this error message using Joe Shafer's "NORM"
package.
>
> Error in storage.mode(x)<- "double" :
>     (list) object cannot be coerced to type 'double'
>
> I'm not sure what this means.
It means just what it says, but fixing it is another issue.  I'd write 
to the maintainer first, with a simple reproducible example.

You can find the maintainer using

help(package="NORM")

(or the eventually obsolete library(help=NORM) ).

Duncan Murdoch

>
>
> I get this message when running
>
>    s<- prelim.norm(filename)
>
> prelim.norm is used to develop some summary statistics, etc. before
> implementing the EM algorithm for missing data.  Please note that this
> is a data fusion exercise and there is considerable amounts of missing
> data by design.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> David
>

I'd guess that "filename" is not a matrix nor something that can
be coerced
into a matrix. Try 
> class(filename)
To find out if it is a matrix. Without knowing more about "filename"
it is
hard to diagnose. It could be a data.frame with a character field or some
other simple issue resulting from importing the data into R.
> str(filename) 
Will list the fields in the "filename" and their type. For norm they
must
all be numeric.

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David L Carlson
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4352


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Subject: [R] Question about error message

Greetings,

I'm getting this error message using Joe Shafer's "NORM"
package.

Error in storage.mode(x) <- "double" :
   (list) object cannot be coerced to type 'double'

I'm not sure what this means.


I get this message when running

  s <- prelim.norm(filename)

prelim.norm is used to develop some summary statistics, etc. before 
implementing the EM algorithm for missing data.  Please note that this 
is a data fusion exercise and there is considerable amounts of missing 
data by design.

Thanks in advance,

David

-- 

======================================================================David
Kaplan, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Educational Psychology
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Educational Sciences, Room, 1082B
1025 W. Johnson Street
Madison, WI 53706

email: dkaplan at education.wisc.edu
homepage:
http://www.education.wisc.edu/edpsych/default.aspx?content=kaplan.html
Phone: 608-262-0836
======================================================================



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