Thanks. Your suggestion works.
Daniel Malter wrote: > > Does the code below solve your problem? If you have NAs in the same rows, > you have to use "c" or "p" as use= parameters. Otherwise you get the error > you described. > > a=c(1,2,3,4,NA,6) > b=c(2,4,3,5,NA,7) > > which(is.na(a))==which(is.na(b)) > > cor(a,b) ####Error > cor(a,b,use="all.obs") ####Error > > cor(a,b,use="complete.obs") #### Does it. AND > cor(a,b,use="pairwise.complete.obs") #### Does it too. > > ------------------------- > cuncta stricte discussurus > ------------------------- > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im > Auftrag von Ken Spriggs > Gesendet: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 4:34 PM > An: r-help@r-project.org > Betreff: [R] Error in cor.default(x1, x2) : missing observations in > cov/cor > > > 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? > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Error-in-cor.default%28x1%2C-x2%29-%3A-missing-observa > tions-in-cov-cor-tp15723848p15723848.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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Error-in-cor.default%28x1%2C-x2%29-%3A-missing-observations-in-cov-cor-tp15723848p15738495.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.