Look carefully at the output and commands below. The first level of porosity is "macro " (notice the space at the end) but you are asking for "macro" (without the space). Computers are very literal, so "macro " is not equal to "macro". Try it again with the space (or renaming the level in the factor to not include the space). Also check to see if the name of porosity has a space or something in it (the $ method will do a partial match so data.b$porosity will match if the factor is named "porosity" or "porosity " or "porosity.somethingelseafterthemainname", but the subset command is only looking for something named "porosity" and will not match the others). Hope this helps,
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Robert Walters Sent: Sat 2/23/2008 7:13 AM To: Chuck Cleland Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] using subset() in data frame Chuck Cleland wrote: > On 2/23/2008 6:09 AM, Chuck Cleland wrote: >> On 2/22/2008 8:01 PM, Robert Walters wrote: Chuck, Thanks for the pointers on subset(). When I submit the two variants you suggested, below: > fit1 <- lm(y ~ x, subset(data.b, porosity == "macro")) Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object "porosity" not found > fit1 <- lm(pore.pct ~ Db, data.b[data.b$porosity=="macro",]) Error in lm.fit(x, y, ...) : 0 (non-NA) cases So, the problem is there are no objects defined for data.b, as confirmed by the following query: > objects() [1] "data.a" "data.a0" "data.b" > objects(data.b) Error in as.environment(pos) : invalid object for 'as.environment' However, when I submit the following queries: > names(data.b) [1] "system" "block" "position" ... > levels(data.b$porosity) [1] "macro " "micro" > print(data.b$porosity) [1] macro... [26] micro... [51] macro... [76] micro... R returns values in each instance. Therein lies my confusion. Furthermore,I can plot data.b with xyplot(), a very nice coplot is produced. Any thoughts? Robert ______________________________________________ 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
