R help - Feb 2012 - Error in rep.int(boxwex, n) : negative length vectors are not allowed

Dear All,
I tried to invoke plot for a matrix of?196475 x2 dimension. I loaded the data
with read.table. On one dimension, there are strings (names) and on the other
dimension, the floats between 0 and 1. When I invoked plot by setting x to names
and y to floats and ylim = c(0,1), I got the following error message:

Error in rep.int(boxwex, n) : negative length vectors are not allowed


Does it come from the large-size dimension of the matrix and which vectors get a
negative length?

Best,

Carol

Sorry for the error: the first column is of the?string?type and the second
column of float, respectively.


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Subject: Error in rep.int(boxwex, n) : negative length vectors are not allowed

Dear All,
I tried to invoke plot for a matrix of?196475 x2 dimension. I loaded the data
with read.table. On one dimension, there are strings (names) and on the other
dimension, the floats between 0 and 1. When I invoked plot by setting x to names
and y to floats and ylim = c(0,1), I got the following error message:

Error in rep.int(boxwex, n) : negative length vectors are not allowed


Does it come from the large-size dimension of the matrix and which vectors get a
negative length?

Best,

Carol

Can you give minimal reproducible code? I'm worried about using
strings for the x axis but it'll be easier to diagnose with data and
actual code. Use dput() to put your data sample (not your whole data
set) in email-friendly plain text.

Michael

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:46 AM, carol white <wht_crl at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Dear All,
> I tried to invoke plot for a matrix of?196475 x2 dimension. I loaded the
data with read.table. On one dimension, there are strings (names) and on the
other dimension, the floats between 0 and 1. When I invoked plot by setting x to
names and y to floats and ylim = c(0,1), I got the following error message:
>
> Error in rep.int(boxwex, n) : negative length vectors are not allowed
>
>
> Does it come from the large-size dimension of the matrix and which vectors
get a negative length?
>
> Best,
>
> Carol
>
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