The help page for the survfit function says it expects a formula as its first
argument so try:
> sleepfit <- survfit(Surv(timeb, death)~1, data = sleep)
David
Sent from my iPhone ... so unable to test.
> On Mar 6, 2014, at 12:07 PM, Lucy Leigh <lucy.leigh at
newcastle.edu.au> wrote:
>
>
> Hi everyone,
> I am not new to R, but new to running survival models in R.
>
> I am trying to create some basic KM curves, using the following code:
>
>
> library(survival)
> library(KMsurv)
>
> (import data etc - basic right censored, with continuously observed time of
death)
>
> sleepfit <- survfit(Surv(timeb, death), data = sleep)
>
> Here timeb is measured is survival in years, death is a 1/0 indicator (1 =
event = death), and the dataset is called sleep.
>
>
> But I get the following error
>
> Error in UseMethod("survfit", formula) :
> no applicable method for 'survfit' applied to an object of class
"Surv"
>
> I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, as I followed the example from
> the following paper
http://anson.ucdavis.edu/~hiwang/teaching/10fall/R_tutorial%201.pdf , page 4 as
a guide.
>
>
>
> I also tried
>
> sleepfit <- survfit(Surv(timeb, death==1), data = sleep)
>
> and
>
> sleepfit <- survfit(Surv(starttime, endtime, death), data = sleep)
>
>
>
> Can anyone tell me what I might be doing wrong?
> Thanks,
> Lucy
>
>
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