Hello, I'm a new user to R so apologies if this is a basic question, but after scouring the web on information for summary.formula, I still am searching for an answer.
I made a function to analyze my data - I have a categorical variable and three continuous variables. I am analyzing my continuous variables on the basis of my categorical variables. radioanal <- function(a) { #Educational status first - pulling variables from my database. categorical is 13 = Edu. numerical is 48=Kyph, 50=Vert, 53=HL. a1= a[,c(13,48,50,53)] #make sure they are in numeric form a2= transform(a1, Kyph=as.numeric(as.character(Kyph)), Vert=as.numeric(as.character(Vert)), HL=as.numeric(as.character(HL))) #see boxplots of the individual variables boxplot(a2$Kyph~a2$Edu, main="Education vs Kyphosis angle", xlab="Education", ylab="Kyphosis angle") boxplot(a2$Vert~a2$Edu, main="Education vs # of vertebrae affected", xlab="Education", ylab="#of vertebrae affected") boxplot(a2$HL~a2$Edu, main="Education vs %HL", xlab="Education", ylab="%HL") #see distribution of data d=summary.formula(a2$Edu~a2$Kyph+a2$HL+a2$Vert, method="reverse", overall=T, continuous=5, add=TRUE, test=T) #perform MANOVA a3=manova(cbind(Kyph, Vert, HL)~as.factor(Edu), data=a2) #return results a4=list("Results of Educational Status MANOVA", print(d), summary(a3, test="Hotelling-Lawley"), summary(a3, test="Roy") , summary(a3, test="Pillai"), summary(a3, test="Wilks"), summary.aov(a3) ) print(a4) } This function works as is, but I want to add the mean and standard deviation to my table. When I add the following code to line 36 where I print "d" print(d, prmsd=TRUE) The numbers in my table disappear. When I use the same commands from the command line, the same thing happens. After reading the manual, I think the error might be due to the missing numbers in my database, so I tried adding na.action to my set of commands: print(summary.formula(a2$Edu~a2$Kyph+a2$HL+a2$Vert, na.action, method="reverse", overall=T, continuous=5, add=TRUE, test=T), prmsd=TRUE) but then I get the following error: Error in as.data.frame.default(data, optional = TRUE) : cannot coerce class '"function"' into a data.frame Any ideas? Also, does anyone know what kind of test statistic this function calculates? I compared the F and p values to a manual ANOVA but they were different. ______________________________________________ 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.