Try excluding the first column. cor(gse20437[, 2:4])
chintan85 wrote: > > > Tab delimited file looks like this > > Id v1 v2 v3 > df 56 90 45 > gh 87 98 78 > ty 89 78 67 > > I used this code > > > [code] > > gse20437 <- read.csv("C:/Users//Desktop/data/GSE20437_matrix.txt",header = > TRUE, sep = ",", strip.white = TRUE) > > gsecor <- cor(gse20437, method ="pearson") or > > gsecor <- cor(gse20437) > > [/code] > > i get error x must be numeric.. > > -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Urgent-Help-with-R-calculation-correlation-coefficient-tp3074206p3074251.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.