OK, that is not the definition of cor in the stats package. Some add-on package you are loading might be overwriting it.
What happens if you do stats::cor(x1,x2) ? Ken Spriggs wrote: > I get the following: > >> cor > function (x, y = NULL, use = "all.obs", method = c("pearson", > "kendall", "spearman")) > { > UseMethod("cor") > } > > > > > Erik Iverson wrote: >> What happens when you type "cor" at the R prompt? Perhaps your calling >> of the cor function is not calling the cor function in the stats package? >> >> >> >> Ken Spriggs wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm trying to do cor(x1,x2) and I get the following error: >>> Error in cor.default(x1, x2) : missing observations in cov/cor >>> >>> A few things: >>> 1. I've used cor() many times and have never encountered this error. >>> 2. length(x1) = length(x2) >>> 3. is.numeric(x1) = is.numeric(x2) = TRUE >>> 4. which(is.na(x1)) = which(is.na(x2)) = integer(0) {the same goes >>> for >>> is.nan()} >>> 5. I also try cor(x1,x2, use = "all.obs") and get the same error. >>> >>> What can be going wrong? >>> >>> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> >> > ______________________________________________ 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.