Describe fails for me with a message similar to what was an issue in 2008 and
got fixed according to posts.
R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
Copyright (C) 2012 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0
Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
# output truncated
> options(chmhelp = FALSE, help_type = "text")
> .help.ESS <- help
> options(STERM='iESS', editor='gnuclient.exe')
> load('prostate.sav')
> library(rms)
Loading required package: Hmisc
Loading required package: survival
Loading required package: splines
Hmisc library by Frank E Harrell Jr
Type library(help='Hmisc'), ?Overview, or ?Hmisc.Overview')
to see overall documentation.
NOTE:Hmisc no longer redefines [.factor to drop unused levels when
subsetting. To get the old behavior of Hmisc type dropUnusedLevels().
Attaching package: 'Hmisc'
The following object(s) are masked from 'package:survival':
untangle.specials
The following object(s) are masked from 'package:base':
format.pval, round.POSIXt, trunc.POSIXt, units
Attaching package: 'rms'
The following object(s) are masked from 'package:survival':
Surv
> describe(prostate)
Error in format(dates(x)) : could not find function "dates"
>
Thanks everybody.
Stephen
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