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 ______________________________________________ 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.