Dear all, Thank you so much for your help. I was able to get a script that ran and did what i wanted it to do. It was as follows:-
> correlation <- function(a) + { + r <- matrix(nrow = dim(a)[1], ncol=dim(a)[1]) + for(x in c(2:dim(a)[1])) + { + for(y in c(x:dim(a)[1])) + { + r[x,y] <- (cor.test(as.vector(as.matrix(a)[x,], mode="double"), as.vector(as.matrix(a)[y,], mode="double"))$p.value) + r[y,x] <- r[x,y] + } + } + return(r) + } Now I want to extend this to include all the possible correlations that cor.test can do. One of the possible arguments of cor.test is method="method", where method can be pearson, spearman or kendall. To include this I modified my code in the following way:- > correlation <- function(a, b) + { + r <- matrix(nrow = dim(a)[1], ncol=dim(a)[1]) + for(x in c(2:dim(a)[1])) + { + for(y in c(x:dim(a)[1])) + { + r[x,y] <- (cor.test(as.vector(as.matrix(a)[x,], mode="double"), as.vector(as.matrix(a)[y,], mode="double"), method="b")$p.value) + r[y,x] <- r[x,y] + } + } + return(r) + } This when executed though, gives the following error:- > correlation(a, spearman) Error in match.arg(method) : 'arg' should be one of “pearson”, “kendall”, “spearman” Please help! Sumona ______________________________________________ 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.