Dear Nicole, Sorry, I didn't notice the earlier messages in this thread.
Please see below. > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Nicole Marie Ford > Sent: March-10-12 1:20 AM > To: r-help > Subject: Re: [R] problem with effects : 'subscript out of bounds' > > if that is not specific (or not general) enough: > > newDV <- dat$DV ## newDV is my DV & it is continuous. > newDV <- as.numeric(newDV)-5 > str(newDV) > > > (i had to do a great deal of coding here so i am snipping down to the > end) > > > tmp[which(dat$v1 == "stuff" & dat$v2 == "more stuff")] <- "lots of > stuff" > tmp <- factor(tmp, levels=c("la", "la la", "fa la la")) > dat$v3 <- tmp > newIV <- as.factor(dat$v3) #### newIV is my IV, a factor as you can > see. > > n.var4 <- dat$v4 ## control > > n.var5 <- dat$v5 ##control (there are others but they were coded the > same) > > > n.mod1 <- lm(newDV ~ newIV + v4 + v5 + v6 + v7 + v8 + v9, data=dat) > ### linear model. all of these variables already are specific to the > dataset which i called 'norway' so there is no need to specify in the > model. > > summary(n.mod1) > > > plot(effect("newIV", n.mod1), multiline=T) > Error in plot(effect("nor.trust", n.mod1), multiline = T) : > error in evaluating the argument 'x' in selecting a method for > function 'plot': Error in apply(mod.matrix[, components], 1, prod) : > subscript out of bounds This seems very odd: The command given is plot(effect("newIV", n.mod1), multiline=T) but the error message is apparently for plot(effect("nor.trust", n.mod1), multiline = T) and nor.trust isn't a variable in the model. What command did you execute? Although it's not relevant to the error, there's no point in setting multiline=TRUE for a model without interactions. Best, John -------------------------------- John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > > > ~~this ran perfectly on my previous dataset so i am unsure of the > issue. thanks in advance. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
