similar to: Wrong result with cor(x, y, method="spearman", use="complete.obs") with NA's???

Arrrrr, I think I've found a bug in the behavior of the stats::cor function when NAs are present, but in case I'm missing something, could you look over this example and let me know what you think: > a = c(1,3,NA,1,2) > b = c(1,2,1,1,4) > cor(a,b,method="spearman", use="complete.obs") [1] 0.8164966 > cor(a,b,method="spearman",

Hi all, I'm not quite sure if this is a feature or a bug or if I just fail to understand the documentation: If I use cor() with pairwise.complete.obs and method=pearson, the result is a scalar: ->cor(c(1,2,3),c(3,4,6),use="pairwise.complete.obs",method="pearson") [1] 0.9819805 The documentation says that " '"pairwise.complete.obs"' only

Hi, I have the following two measurements stored in mat: > print(mat) [,1] [,2] [1,] -14.80976 -265.786 [2,] -14.92417 -54.724 [3,] -13.92087 -58.912 [4,] -9.11503 -115.580 [5,] -17.05970 -278.749 [6,] -25.23313 -219.513 [7,] -19.62465 -497.873 [8,] -13.92087 -659.486 [9,] -14.24629 -131.680 [10,] -20.81758 -604.961 [11,] -15.32194 -18.735 To calculate the ranking

Hi, How can I make the cor(x, y, method="spearman") call to produce an error when the input to it (x, y) produces an error? Here is a simple example: > a <- c(0, 1, 2) > b <- c(100, 2, 4) ## error: > log(a) [1] -Inf 0.0000000 0.6931472 ## error, as expected: > cor(log(a), log(b), method="pearson") [1] NaN ## not an error any more (not expected): >

Hi, I have just encountered a strange behaviour from 'cor' with regards to the treatment of NAs when calculating Spearman correlations. I guess it is a subtle bug. If I understand the help page correctly, the two modes 'complete.obs' and 'pairwise.complete.obs' specify how to deal with correlation coefficients when calculating a correlation _matrix_. When calculating

Dear R maintainers, R is great. Now that I have that out of the way, I believe I have encountered a bug, or at least an inconsistency, in how Spearman and Kendall rank correlations are handled. Specifically, cor() and cor.test() do not produce the same answer when the data contain NAs. cor() treats the NAs as data, while cor.test() eliminates them. The option use="complete.obs" has

Full_Name: David Simcha Version: 2.10 OS: Windows XP Home Submission from: (NULL) (173.3.208.5) > a <- c(1:10) > b <- c(1:10) > cor.test(a, b, method = "spearman", alternative = "greater", exact = TRUE) Spearman's rank correlation rho data: a and b S = 0, p-value < 2.2e-16 alternative hypothesis: true rho is greater than 0 sample estimates:

Hello, Does anyone know if the cor function, when method = "spearman", returns a correlation coefficient corrected for any ties in the ranks of the data? I have data with quite a few ties and am thinking that I should use a calculation of the coefficient corrected for ties, but before I try and code this calculation myself, I thought I should check whether or not cor() automatically

Dear HelpeRs, I have some data: "ice" <- structure(c(0.386, 0.374, 0.393, 0.425, 0.406, 0.344, 0.327, 0.288, 0.269, 0.256, 0.286, 0.298, 0.329, 0.318, 0.381, 0.381, 0.47, 0.443, 0.386, 0.342, 0.319, 0.307, 0.284, 0.326, 0.309, 0.359, 0.376, 0.416, 0.437, 0.548, 41, 56, 63, 68, 69, 65, 61, 47, 32, 24, 28, 26, 32, 40, 55, 63, 72, 72, 67, 60, 44, 40, 32, 27, 28, 33,

Greetings. There seems to be a problem with the P-value computation in the cor.test with method="spearman". In R1.8.0 (MS Windows) I seem to be getting intermittently nonsense P-values, but the rho's are OK. I can get this reproducibly with the toy example attached where the first use is OK and subsequent calls with the same data give nonsense. (I have also seen the problem

I posted this on R help, and a few others responded indicating they too were able to replicate the error as a function of missing data. I believe this should not be the case and hence and reporting it here. ### Code provided on R-Help by Ivar Herfindal # Simulate data testdata <- cbind.data.frame(gr=3Drep(letters[1:4], each=3D5), = aa=3Drnorm(20), bb=3Drnorm(20)) # Introduce some missingness

Hi. I am currently trying to run some Spearman correlations, and have encountered two issues. 1) When using cor.test() with a variable that includes ties, I get the "Cannot compute exact p-values with ties" error. I have read that this function now uses an asymptotic formula that allows for ties, so do not understand why I am getting this error. (I am running version 2.4.0.) I

Hello R gurus, I want to calculate the Spearman rho between two ranked lists. I am getting results with cor.test that differ in comparison to my own spearman function: > my.spearman function(l1, l2) { if(length(l1) != length(l2)) stop("lists must have same length") r1 <- rank(l1) r2 <- rank(l2) dsq <- sapply(r1-r2,function(x) x^2) 1 - ((6 * sum(dsq))

Dear all, Suppose my data frame is as follows: id price distance 1 2 4 1 3 5 ... 2 4 8 2 5 9 ... n 3 7 n 8 9 I would like to calculate the rank-order correlation between price and distance for each id. cor(price,distance,method = "spearman") calculate a correlation for all. Then I tried to use apply(data,list='id',cor(price , distance , method =

Dear R developers: There is a possible bug in calculating the p-value for Spearman's rank correlation. Line 155 in file R-patched/src/library/stats/R/cor.test.R is as.double(round(q) + lower.tail), I think, it should be as.double(round(q) + 2*lower.tail), The reason is that round(q) is expected to be an even number (the S statistic), so the next feasible value is round(q)+2.

Hi all, I am trying to figure out the formula used by R's Spearman rho (using cor(method="spearman")) because I can't seem to get the same value as by calculating "by hand". Perhaps I'm using "cor" wrong, but I don't know where. Basically, I am running these commands: > y=read.table(file="tmp",header=TRUE,sep="\t") >

Dear R-helpers, I would like to do a Spearman rank order test, and used the cor() function with the method "spearman". It gives me a number (correlation coefficient?) , but how can I get the p-value? Thank you for the help in advance! Regards, Anne-Katrin -- [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, A following function was kindly provided by GGally?s maintainer, Barret Schloerke. function(data, mapping, ...) { p <- ggplot(data = data, mapping = mapping) + geom_point(color = I("blue")) + geom_smooth(method = "lm", color = I("black"), ...) + theme_blank() + theme(panel.border=element_rect(fill=NA, linetype =

Pardon my ignorance, but is there a difference in cor.test between exact=FALSE and exact=NULL when method=spearman? Take for example: x<-c(1,2,2,3,4,5) y<-c(1,2,2,10,11,12) cor.test(x,y, method="spearman", exact=NULL) This gives an error message, Warning message: Cannot compute exact p-values with ties in: cor.test.default(x, y, method = "spearman", exact = NULL)

Full_Name: Vladimir Obolonkin Version: tested in 2.0 to 2.4.1 OS: linux, win, mac Submission from: (NULL) (202.14.96.194) {{ Subject shortened manually -- to pass anti-spam filters Original-subject: Incorrect matrix of spearman correlations working \ large (24000 by 425 and 78 by 425 data frames) in 64-bit Linux machines;\ the same code gives correct results in 32-bits Win and