Hello,

You must post a data example to get some help. Use

dput( head(tth, 50) )  # paste the output of this in a post

As for the warnings, they are not errors. They are telling you that it can't make a replacement. substitute(x) is probably returning NULL and the aggregate return value's column names are ill formed, 'count..' where it should be 'count.Mins.to.hospital'.

Anyway, post a data example.

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Em 24-08-2012 13:51, Lynn Hutchings escreveu:
I'm very new to R and just finding my way, so be gentle!



I've hit a swift halt doing some summary statistics on a simple continuous data 
field, divided into two categories. I'm getting the following error message. I 
am unclear why length(names(tth$Mins.to.hospital)) is zero and how to alter 
this. This is preventing me from carrying the summary data forward to any 
further analyses, which I need to create some new variables to account for the 
missing data points.



I'm sure this is a very simple error, and I apologise for asking!



Lynn







The output is below - I have the epicalc program loaded.

aggregate(tth$Mins.to.hospital, by=list(DIRECT=tth$JR.1st.hospital))
  Note:
       Missing values removed.

   DIRECT count..  sum..    mean.. median..     sd.. min.. max.$
1     No      76 202607 2665.8816      630 5297.410   217 26495
2    Yes     319  57859  181.3762       70 1314.982     0 23180
Warning messages:
1: In names(y)[length(names(y))] <- paste("count", as.character(substitute(x)), 
 :
   number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement length
2: In names(y)[length(names(y))] <- paste(FUN[i], as.character(substitute(x)),  
:
   number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement length
3: In names(y)[length(names(y))] <- paste(FUN[i], as.character(substitute(x)),  
:
   number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement length
4: In names(y)[length(names(y))] <- paste(FUN[i], as.character(substitute(x)),  
:
   number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement length
5: In names(y)[length(names(y))] <- paste(FUN[i], as.character(substitute(x)),  
:
   number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement length
6: In names(y)[length(names(y))] <- paste(FUN[i], as.character(substitute(x)),  
:
   number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement length
7: In names(y)[length(names(y))] <- paste(FUN[i], as.character(substitute(x)),  
:
   number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement length
colnames(tth)
[1] "Time.to.hospital.arrival.present.only" "Mins.to.hospital"                      
"JR.1st.hospital"
length(names(tth$Mins.to.hospital))
[1] 0
length(paste("Count", as.character(substitute(tth$JR.1st.hospital))))
[1] 3

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